Eastern Union Railway
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The Eastern Union Railway 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 pro
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
Hadleigh Railway
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The Hadleigh Railway was a 7+1⁄2-mile long single track branch railway line in Suffolk, England, that connected Hadleigh to the main line railway network at Bentley Junction. It was built by the nomin
Eastern Union Railway
…saw the possible disadvantage to trade in their town of not being on the railway network: Bentley was seven miles away. The nominally independent Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway (EU&HJR) was formed with the support of the EUR, and its authorising act of Parliament, the Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway Act 1846 (9…
Hadleigh railway station