Eastern Region of British Railways
The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings. Together with the North Eastern Region, it covered most lines of the former London and North Eastern Railway, except in Scotland. By 1988 the Eastern Region had been divided again into the Eastern Region and the new Anglia Region, with the boundary points being between Peterborough and Whittlesea, and between Royston and Meldreth. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s and was wound up at the end of 1992.
British Railways Eastern Region timetable for Summer 1963.
British Railways Eastern Region "totem" station sign for Lincoln St Marks
The front of a British Railways Class 312 stock train in British Rail corporate 1970s Blue/Grey livery passes through East London on a working to London's Liverpool Street station, as seen from the open window of another train
London and North Eastern Railway
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways' Eastern Region, North Eastern Region, and partially the Scottish Region.
LNER Class A1 No. 2547 Doncaster with The Flying Scotsman train in 1928.
Timetable for Autumn 1926 detailing the resumption of services after the General Strike
Detail of LNER teak panelled coaches, preserved on the Severn Valley Railway
The most famous of the A1/A3 Class locomotives, A3 4472 Flying Scotsman
