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A Greater Anglia train on Platform 4 at Ipswich Station in October 2023 East Anglia was the first area to be worked completely by diesel trains with Class 40s taking over main line express workings. The first one of these ran in June 1958, complete with a headboard with the wording "First Diesel Hauled train on the GE in public service". [ 30 ]
Ipswich Railway Station, circa 1906. The first railway station opened in Ipswich in 1865. It was the first railway station built in Queensland, as the first terminus for the 34 kilometre section of the Main line from Grandchester. [1] [2] [3] In 1887, the station was completely rebuilt. [4] Two pieces of associated historic railway ...
The stations at Bramford, Claydon, Needham, Stowmarket, Haughley Road, Elmswell and Thurston all opened on this date. Bury St Edmunds was served by a temporary station east of the current site, with the main station opening in November 1847. The Ipswich and Bury Railway was formally merged with the Eastern Union Railway on 9 July 1847. [2] [3]
Ipswich railway station is (0.7 miles (1.1 km)) from the town centre. The station serves trains to Cambridge, Felixstowe, London Liverpool Street, Lowestoft, Norwich and Peterborough; it also serves other stations located on the Great Eastern Main Line, East Suffolk Line, Ipswich to Ely Line and Felixstowe Branch Line.
The Main Line railway from Ipswich to Brisbane was opened in 1876, [1] as part of an extension of the first railway line from Ipswich to Bigge's Camp (now Grandchester) on 31 July 1865. [ 2 ] Originally built as single track, the section was duplicated from 1885 to 1887, indicating how quickly the traffic volume grew on the line.
Station code: 600345 (platform 1) 600346 (platform 2) Fare zone: go card 3: Website: ... East Ipswich railway station is located on the Main line in Queensland ...
Trains from London terminated at the station but from November 1846 when a new line was built by the Ipswich and Bury Railway to Bury St Edmunds trains from Bury used to pass the station, stop at Halifax Junction a short distance to the south and propel back into the terminus usually using the western platform. Trains for Bury would reverse out ...
The other major feature remaining from the railway infrastructure is a locomotive turntable. Ipswich station was unusual for a major station in having only a single line, as the double track main line between Brisbane and Toowoomba was slewed to pass through the station, which only had one through platform face, other platforms being dead ends.