Eastern Union Railway
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The Eastern Union Railway (EUR) was an English railway company, at first built from Colchester to Ipswich; it opened in 1846. It was proposed when the earlier Eastern Counties Railway failed to make its promised line from Colchester to Norwich. The businessman John Chevallier Cobbold and the engineer Peter Bruff were prominent in launching the company. The allied but nominally independent Ipswich and Bury Railway built a line onwards to Bury St Edmunds, also opening in 1846, and soon amalgamated with the EUR.
John Chevallier Cobbold: brewer and railway pioneer
Stoke Hill Tunnel, Ipswich, in 1994
The I&BR station at Stowmarket station - view from the south in 2013
Sir Samuel Bignold (1791–1895), in a portrait of 1874
Great Eastern Railway
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The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
Memorial at Liverpool Street station to GER staff who died during the First World War, unveiled in 1922 by Sir Henry Wilson, who was assassinated by Irish Republican Army gunmen on his way home from the unveiling ceremony.
The exterior of Liverpool Street station (1896)
Former GER Class S69 at Liverpool Street Station locomotive yard (1948)