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Ipswich station
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Freightliner at Ipswich station
Freightliner class 90016 at the Ipswich station Freightliner Depot on the 21st of September 2021
Three class 66s Frightliner Depot at Ipswich station on the 21st of September 2021
A new depot is being built at Ipswich to the north of the station.
Class 90014 and class 90010 "Over the Rainbow"
These two class 90 locomotives in the new Freightliner colours were just to north of the station .
This photo was taken from a moving train window.
Class 90012 is still in its Greater Anglia colours less its logosnext to Freightliner 90046
Freightliner class 66517 at Ipswich station on the 21st of September 2021
Freightliner class 90016 in Ipswich station heading southwards in the station with its train on the 21st of September 2021
Freightliner class 90049 being moved by 66513 around the depot at Ipswich station on the 21st of September 2021
About Ipswich
Ipswich station is on the main line from London Liverpool Street to Norwich. There is a tunnel at the southern end of the station. As well as the trains from London Liverpool Street and Norwich, it also has trains from Cambridge and trains from Ely and Peterborough from the northern end via Bury St Edmunds which leave the main line at Haughley junction north of Stowmarket.
From the southern end of the station as well as the London trains there are local trains from from Harwich and Harwich International (Parkstone Quay) via Manningtree junction. Ipswich also has trains to Lowestoft via the East Suffolk line which leaves the main Norwich line north of the station, at East Suffolk junction. Felixstowe line trains then leave the East Suffolk line at Westerfield junction. Felixstowe has its local serves and now has a lot of container trains from the Felixstowe port branch.
This makes this for a busy station, and Ipswich the hub of this part of Eastern England.
