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The Ipswich to Ely Line is a railway line linking East Anglia to the English Midlands via Ely. There is also a branch line to . Passenger services are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia. It is a part of Network Rail Strategic Route 5, SRS 05.07, 05.08 and part of SRS 07.03.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Route 5 - West Anglia )〕 ==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 26 November 1846. The Ipswich and Bury Railway Company was formally merged with the Eastern Union Railway Company on 9 July 1847.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=THE HISTORY OF THURSTON RAILWAY STATION )〕 The 'Newmarket Railway' was built by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway with the first section from Newmarket to (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 and also to in 1879.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FORDHAM )〕 Following the grouping of 1923 the lines became part of the London & North Eastern Railway. In 1948 as a result of nationalization of the railways the route became part of British Railways. 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「Ipswich to Ely Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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