History
The Eastern Union Railway had built a line from Colchester to Ipswich and they formed a new company, Ipswich and Bury Railway Company, chaired by John Chevallier Cobbold to build an extension from Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds which was known as the "Bury extension". It was granted parliamentary approval by Royal Assent on 21 July 1845 and the first train ran on ran on 26 November 1846. The Ipswich and Bury Railway Company was formally merged with the Eastern Union Railway Company on 9 July 1847.
The 'Newmarket Railway' was built by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway with the first section from Newmarket to Six Mile Bottom (and on to meet the West Anglia Main Line at Great Chesterford) opened in 1848, followed by a section from Six Mile Bottom to Cambridge in 1851.
The Great Eastern Railway was formed in 1862 acquiring both the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway and the Eastern Union Railway. They opened the final section of the route from Newmarket to Ely and also to Bury St Edmunds in 1879.
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