Manningtree to Harwich Line (Eastern Union Railway)





Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Manningtree to Harwich

Not the best of places to break down and have to climb out of the cab…… On 9th July 2017, this late and ailing London to Norwich service ...
Mark Dufton 09/07/2017
Manningtree station, or as it is now known Manningtree for Dedham Vale and the junction for the Harwich Town branch, looking towards London from the ...
David Bosher 25/06/2019
The 13.30 Ipswich to Liverpool Street crosses the River Stour at Manningtree on 13th May 1979. The industrial complex in the background is the former ...
Mark Dufton 13/05/1979
The driver of 37254 has the road to Ipswich and Norwich at Manningtree on 28th April 1979. The camera has also caught the clearing of the starter for ...
Mark Dufton 28/04/1979
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Numerous holiday trains from the Midlands to Clacton and Walton could have passed beneath this brickwork - if only the line had not been abandoned ...
Mark Dufton 06/11/1977
A westward view through a rather grimey Mistley station towards Manningtree on 29th January 1978. At the time, the station was still manned and the ...
Mark Dufton 29/01/1978
Class 08 shunting locomotives are well known for hiding out in obscure locations. Here, on 23 April 1983, 08 530 is tucked away in the station yard at ...
Mark Dufton 23/04/1983
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90131 on 4M56, the 1309hrs Parkeston to Crewe, passing through Wrabness in 1994. ...
Roger Geach 08/02/1994
A shabby DMU toils out of Wrabness station in the exceptional heat of 15th August 1976, a time when air conditioning was something that happened only ...
Mark Dufton 15/08/1976
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The signal cabin name still carries the name Dovercourt Bay (the Bay had been dropped 4 years earlier) at Dovercourt station on 15th ...
Mark Dufton 15/08/1976
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A Community Rail Partnership has been hard at work on the terminus of the Mayflower Line at Harwich Town, seen here in May 2022.
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John Yellowlees 21/05/2022
On Sunday 4th February 1979, 37075 eases into Harwich Town with the empty stock of the afternoon boat train from Liverpool Street to Harwich Parkeston ...
Mark Dufton 04/02/1979
The terminus at Harwich Town on Sunday 4th February 1979. The DMU for the local service is at the platform end pending the arrival of loco hauled ...
Mark Dufton 04/02/1979
In a race against an ebbing tide, 08460 has an uphill struggle to unload the Zeebrugge-Harwich train ferry on 25th March 1979. The ferry had arrived ...
Mark Dufton 25/03/1979
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Manningtree Curve