Great Eastern Main Line
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| Great Eastern Main Line |
| Principal stations (from south to north) London Liverpool Street Stratford Maryland Forest Gate Manor Park Ilford Seven Kings Goodmayes Chadwell Heath Romford
Harold Wood Brentwood Shenfield
Chelmsford Hatfield Peverel Witham
Marks Tey
(for Clacton and Walton lines) Manningtree
Stowmarket
Norwich
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The towns served by the route, starting from London, are listed below. Towns in bold are served by fast InterCity services.
- London Liverpool Street
- Stratford
- Maryland
- Forest Gate
- Manor Park
- Ilford
- Seven Kings
- Goodmayes
- Chadwell Heath
- Romford
- *Upminster Branch Line diverges to Upminster
- Gidea Park
- Harold Wood
- Brentwood
- Shenfield
- *Line diverges to serve Billericay and Wickford, where the line diverges to serve either Southend-on-Sea, or Southminster via the Crouch Valley Line.
- Ingatestone
- Chelmsford
- Hatfield Peverel
- Witham
- *Braintree Branch Line diverges to Braintree
- Kelvedon
- Marks Tey
- *Sudbury Branch Line diverges to Sudbury
- Colchester
- *Line diverges to serve Walton-on-the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea
- Manningtree
- *Mayflower Line diverges to serve Harwich
- Ipswich
- *Line diverges to serve Felixstowe Branch Line to Felixstowe, or the East Suffolk Line to Lowestoft
- Needham Market
- Stowmarket
- *Line diverges to serve Bury St. Edmunds then Newmarket and Cambridge, or Ely, March and Peterborough
- Diss
- Norwich
- *Line diverges to serve either Lowestoft or Great Yarmouth (via the Wherry Line), or Wroxham, Cromer and Sheringham (via the Bittern Line), or Wymondham, Thetford and Ely (via the Breckland Line)
| Main line railways in Great Britain:''' | |
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| High-speed main lines: | Channel Tunnel Rail Link |
| Cross-Country Route East Coast Main Line Great Eastern Main Line Great Western Main Line Midland Main Line West Coast Main Line | |
| Railway lines in the East of England:''' | |
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| Main lines: | East Coast Main Line Great Eastern Main Line Fen Line>Cambridge-King's Lynn "Fen" Line Cambridge-Norwich "Breckland" Line Colchester-Clacton Line Ely-Peterborough Line Ipswich-Ely Line London-Cambridge Line London, Tilbury & Southend Line Manningtree-Harwich "Mayflower" Line West Anglia Main Line |
| Commuter lines: | Hertford Loop Line Lea Valley Lines Northern City Line Romford to Upminster Line>Romford-Upminster Line Shenfield-Southend Victoria Line Witham-Braintree Line |
| Rural lines: | Cambridge-Ipswich Line Crouch Valley Line East Suffolk Line Grantham-Skegness Line Ipswich-Felixstowe Line Marks Tey-Sudbury Line Norwich-Sheringham "Bittern" Line Peterborough-Lincoln Line Thorpe le Soken-Walton Line Wherry Lines |
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