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The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was an English railway company incorporated in 1836 intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester, and then extend to Norwich and Yarmouth. Construction began in 1837 on the first nine miles at the London end. Construction was beset by engineering and other problems, leading to severe financial difficulties. As a result, the project was truncated to Colchester in 1839. In 1862 ECR was merged with a number of other companies to form the Great Eastern Railway. ==Opening== After being authorised by an Act of Parliament on 4 July 1836, construction of the line began in late March 1837 and the railway opened on 20 June 1839 from a temporary terminus at in Mile End, east London, as far as in Essex. On 1 July 1840 the ECR opened an extension at the London end to its permanent terminus at Shoreditch (renamed Bishopsgate in 1846) and at the country end to . From 7 March 1843 the line ran all the way to , a distance of 51 miles; the route is now part of the Great Eastern Main Line. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eastern Counties Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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