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Colchester Station in the city of Colchester, Essex.
The station was opened in 1843 by the Eastern Counties Railway. While officially named Colchester Station, however locally it is also known as Colchester North to distinguish it from Colchester Town station which is closer to the city centre. Buses also use this unofficial name.
The ECR had planned to build a line from London to Norwich using a very similar route to that on which the Great Eastern Main Line operates today, but funding became a problem and apart from surveying a section onwards to Ardleigh, they were forced to abandon any further line construction.
It was three years later when the onward link to Ipswich was eventually opened by the Eastern Union Railway following intervention by business interests in Ipswich, the city having felt isolated by development of the railway to Norwich via Cambridge by the ECR.
As passenger numbers passing through the station increased, particularly with growth on the Sunshine Coast Line, the layout of the station became inadequate. This problem was heightened on summer weekends when large numbers of holiday trains destined for Clacton-on-Sea were added to the schedules.
The station had also been built on a relatively sharp curve.
Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester_railway_station
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Colchester Station in the city of Colchester, Essex.
The station was opened in 1843 by the Eastern Counties Railway. While officially named Colchester Station, however locally it is also known as Colchester North to distinguish it from Colchester Town station which is closer to the city centre. Buses also use this unofficial name.
The ECR had planned to build a line from London to Norwich using a very similar route to that on which the Great Eastern Main Line operates today, but funding became a problem and apart from surveying a section onwards to Ardleigh, they were forced to abandon any further line construction.
It was three years later when the onward link to Ipswich was eventually opened by the Eastern Union Railway following intervention by business interests in Ipswich, the city having felt isolated by development of the railway to Norwich via Cambridge by the ECR.
As passenger numbers passing through the station increased, particularly with growth on the Sunshine Coast Line, the layout of the station became inadequate. This problem was heightened on summer weekends when large numbers of holiday trains destined for Clacton-on-Sea were added to the schedules.
The station had also been built on a relatively sharp curve.
Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester_railway_station