Date: 16/07/2013

The UK east coast port of Felixstowe is to benefit from a £12m (14.8m) grant from the European Union to be spent on a rail ‘chord’ at Ipswich. The 1.3km chord will allow freight trains to travel directly from Felixstowe to the Midlands.

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A departure from Felixstowe container depot crosses the road at Felixstowe Beach in 1990.
Location: Felixstowe Beach
Company: Felixstowe Railway and Pier
//1990 Ewan Crawford

Despite the token catcher at the foot of the signal box steps, the signalman at Westerfield Junction prefers to engage in some rather dangerous gymnastics as an Ipswich bound DMU leaves the Felixstowe branch in November 1978. With the high volume of freightliner traffic also entering and leaving the branch at that time, continually running up and down the steps would have been particularly punishing.
Location: Westerfield Junction
Company: Eastern Union Railway
25/11/1978 Mark Dufton

A Felixstowe - Trafford Park container train crossing the bridge over the A503 Camden Road heading west through its namesake station on the North London Line in July 2005 behind Freightliner 90044. The train will join the West Coast Main Line just to the east of Primrose Hill Tunnel [see image 53461].
Location: Camden Road
Company: East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway
21/07/2005 John Furnevel