Ipswich and Bury Railway
Another company, the Ipswich and Bury Railway Company (I&BR), was formed to build a line to Bury St Edmunds. Its Act of 21 July 1845 authorised capital of £400,000. Theoretically separate from EUR it had with many shareholders and directors in common with the EUR, and also the same Head Office location. It did not propose an end-on connection from the planned Ipswich station, but instead a connection slightly to the west via a tunnel under Stoke Hill, to a new station, which on completion replaced the old one. The line was 26.5 miles long, with intermediate stations at Needham, Stowmarket, Haughley, Elswell and Thurston; it is now part of the Ipswich to Ely Line. The opening ceremony was on 7 December 1846 after goods traffic had started a week earlier; passenger service formally started on 24 December 1846. The EUR and I&BR were worked as one from 1 January 1847, and formal amalgamation was obtained by Act of 9 July 1847.
Read more about this topic: Eastern Union Railway
Famous quotes containing the words bury and/or railway:
“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one’s bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one’s head under the cover, giving one’s self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)