Class 321 Greater Anglia units


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<h4><a href='/locations/R/Romford'>Romford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/U/Upminster_to_Romford_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Upminster to Romford Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>321303, in the single bay platform at Romford, awaiting departure for Upminster on 24th October 2019. This was previously a separate station, opened by the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway in 1893, to the Eastern Counties (later GER) station that is on the opposite side of the road bridge but the two are now linked by a footbridge and treated as one station. Conversion of this line into a guided busway in the 1970s happily never occurred and it is now an isolated section of the London Overground. 1/12</p><p>24/10/2009<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wickford'>Wickford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>321434, working from London Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria, departing from Wickford station in Essex on 5th April 2014. Wickford is the junction for the Crouch Valley Line to Southminster. 2/12</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Burnham-on-Crouch'>Burnham-on-Crouch</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/'/New_Essex_Branch,_Wickford_to_Southminster_Great_Eastern_Railway'>'New Essex' Branch, Wickford to Southminster (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>321324 at Burnham-on-Crouch station in Essex on 5th April 2014. The train will head away from the camera when it departs with a Crouch Valley Line service from Southminster to Wickford. 3/12</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southminster'>Southminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>321331 at Southminster station, terminus of the Crouch Valley Line in Essex, on 5th April 2014. See image <a href='/img/65/354/index.html'>65354</a> of the same location thirty years earlier, since when electrification has forced the platform canopy to be cut back behind the platform edge. 4/12</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southminster'>Southminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>Another view of 321331 at the Southminster branch terminus, waiting to depart with a Crouch Valley Line service to Wickford, on 5th April 2014. 5/12</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wickford'>Wickford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>321331, just arrived from Southminster at Wickford station in Essex, on 5th April 2014. This is the junction where branch trains on the Crouch Valley Line join the Southend Victoria to London Liverpool Street line with some through workings to and from London. 6/12</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southend-on-Sea_Victoria'>Southend-on-Sea Victoria</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/Shenfield_to_Southend_Line_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Shenfield to Southend Line (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>321335 at Southend Victoria, waiting time on a service to London Liverpool Street, on 23rd April 2014. This station, terminus of the branch from Shenfield, was opened by the GER for freight in 1888 and to passengers in 1889 and is one of the busiest outer suburban lines out of Liverpool Street, serving the dormitory towns of Billericay, Wickford, Rayleigh, Hockley and Rochford. Wickford is the junction for the Crouch Valley Line to Southminster, opened at the same time and on 18th July 2011 an additional station was opened on the Southend line to serve Southend Airport. This might have been better off on a short branch line; as it is, airport passengers with all their luggage have to share the same trains with hundreds of London commuters. 7/12</p><p>23/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Goodmayes'>Goodmayes</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>321352 to Liverpool Street, speeding past the obsolete platforms on the fast tracks at Goodmayes on 13th February 2019. The line here was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 20th June 1839 but Goodmayes was not opened until 8th February 1901 by the Great Eastern Railway to serve new residential development. Still theoretically in the County of Essex for postal reasons, Goodmayes is now within the confines of Greater east London. 8/12</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Emerson_Park'>Emerson Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/U/Upminster_to_Romford_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Upminster to Romford Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>321303 heading away from the camera as it departs for Romford from Emerson Park on 24th October 2019. The station was formerly called Emerson Park Halt and is the only stop on the short single track line between Upminster and Romford in Essex, and an isolated part of the London Overground network since May 2015. In the 1970s there were proposals to convert this line, first to a guided busway and then to a road for all traffic (that would have required serious widening). Thankfully both these mad schemes were confined to the planners' wastepaper bins before the ink was dry on the proposal documents. 9/12</p><p>24/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Walton-on-the-Naze'>Walton-on-the-Naze</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tendring_Hundred_Railway'>Tendring Hundred Railway</a></small></p><p>321320, just arrived at the seaside terminus at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex and waiting to return to Colchester via Colchester Town, on 18th September 2020. Sad to see that this is now reduced to a single platform at the end of the single-track branch from the Clacton line at Thorpe-le-Soken. Back in 1965, on a boyhood family holiday, both platforms were in use and the main building, dating from the 1867 opening, was open and fully staffed. A new building has been provided but on this day it was shut with no staff in evidence, apart from the driver and guard. On the left behind the trees is the site of the once-extensive goods yard. 10/12</p><p>18/09/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Thorpe-le-Soken'>Thorpe-le-Soken</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tendring_Hundred_Railway'>Tendring Hundred Railway</a></small></p><p>321309 from Colchester via Colchester Town (reverse) to Walton-on-the Naze, at Thorpe-le-Soken on 1st June 2021. On the right, the ex-11.18 service from Liverpool Street to Clacton-on-Sea has just arrived, providing convenient interchange. On the left is the disused former down main platform, part of which is still used for passengers to access the station from the surrounding area. One of the lamp-posts with the station name on the lamp can be seen on the disused platform, these were nearly all from the 1950s on BR Eastern Region but not many survive now. Another is still in situ at Cleethorpes station in Lincolnshire. That's my friend also called David in the black on the right and we met three other friends of ours at Walton station who had driven down from Norwich. Note that the destination of this train is shown as Walton-on-Naze which is how the branch terminus was known until May 2007 when it was renamed Walton-on-the-Naze to properly reflect the name of the seaside resort. 11/12</p><p>01/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Seven_Kings'>Seven Kings</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_to_Colchester_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>'Not in Service' and rather grubby 321 328 with 321 314 at rear passing west through the Elizabeth Line platforms at Seven Kings, east London, on Tuesday, 4th April 2023. Going for scrapping perhaps? The line here was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 20th June 1839 but Seven Kings station was not opened until sixty years later on 1st March 1899 by the Great Eastern Railway, to serve suburban development. The main line platforms, now fenced off, are out of view on the right. 12/12</p><p>04/04/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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