Great Eastern again - was Anglia


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 18, 2005 at 11:01:29 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.

In Reply to: Re: East Anglia - was Great Northern posted by Mike Dennis on March 17, 2005 at 20:00:31:

As an obtuse Angle I can confirm that our railway - what there is of it - is no longer called Anglia and is now called One Great Eastern.

The real Great Eastern is passing out of living memory, but it seems to have had royal blue steam engines and varnished teak carriages, which seems rather stylish. Within its territory, the Midland and Great Northern Joint ran across to Norwich and Yarmouth from the Midlands, the London Tilbury and Southend was independent as was the Colne Valley and Halstead and the narrow gauge Southwold Railway but the Wisbech and Upwell tramway, home of the original Toby the Tram Engine, was part of the Great Eastern.

The bit that Lawrence and I live on was originally nicknamed the Flying Kipper as it was built to serve the Lowestoft fish trade; it survives because it is used to supply nuclear fuel rods to Sizewell power station.


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