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
Hadleigh railway station
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
Hadleigh Railway
…from the town, but this scheme came to nothing. Local interests were dismayed that their railway connections was to be denied to them, and in 1844 the Eastern Union Railway was incorporated, to build from Ipswich to Colchester, possibly to include Norwich in its network. However this line was not to connect Hadleigh, and…
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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