Network
The main routes were:
- Liverpool Street station and the former GER eastern mainline to Shenfield, Colchester and Harwich in Essex, Norwich in Norfolk and Ipswich and Felixstowe in Suffolk.
- Liverpool Street station and the former GER western mainline to Cambridge and King's Lynn (Norfolk).
- London King's Cross railway station to Stevenage in Hertfordshire and Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.
- Fenchurch Street railway station to Basildon (from 1974), Southend and Shoeburyness.
The lines were managed as the Great Northern (Kings Cross services) and the Great Eastern (Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street services), with the regional headquarters at 55 Liverpool Street. After the merger with the North Eastern Region, that region's headquarters in York became the headquarters of the new Eastern Region.
Commuter services via the North London Line were also run into Broad Street station, but these were slowly run down and diverted to other destinations, with the station eventually being closed in 1986.
Read more about this topic: Eastern Region Of British Railways
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