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A train to Liverpool Street East Box would be block signalled from the West box. Liverpool Street East - situated at the country end of Platform 11; it had 127 active and 9 spare levers, and controlled traffic passing on or off the Local or Through lines, into or out of platforms 11 to 18. Departing trains would be despatched to the west box.
The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a 114.5-mile (184.3 km) major railway line on the British railway system which connects Liverpool Street station in central London with destinations in east London and the East of England, including Shenfield, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich.
The line is electrified at 25 kV AC and has a loading gauge of W8 except for the Stansted branch, which is W6. [4] Line-side train monitoring equipment includes hot axle box detectors (HABD) on the up main south of Newport (39 miles 48 chains from Liverpool Street) and on the down main north of Shepreth Branch Junction (53 miles 10 chains).
This included services between Liverpool Street and Enfield Town, Cheshunt, and Chingford, which were transferred from Greater Anglia to London Overground in 2015. The name proposed for this service in 2015 was the 'Lea Valley line', the established name used for the lines on which this service operates. [6]
Liverpool Street is Britain’s busiest station according to the most recent Office of Rail and Road data, having seen 80.4 million entries and exits from its platforms between 1 April 2022 and 31 ...
The train service was not operated as a through service and passengers had to change for trains to Bishopsgate station (this was the destination before Liverpool Street opened). The line between Hackney Downs and Church Hall Junction opened on 1 August 1872 and direct services to Bishopsgate commenced as a result.
London Liverpool Street has retained its title of Britain's busiest railway station as passenger numbers soared over the past year, new figures show. The estimated number of people entering and ...
The diversion of Liverpool-bound trains to Lime Street in 1966 and the closure of Manchester Central in 1969 (all trains subsequently running to Oxford Road and Piccadilly) saw the route downgraded in importance and from then until the mid-1980s it was operated as a self-contained route due to congestion issues at the Manchester end.