Greater Anglia Trains at Ipswich on August 6th 2022

2nd time at Ipswich on the Great Eastern Main Line as well being the terminus for services from the Felixstowe Branch Line from Felixstowe, East Suffolk Line from Lowestoft as well as Cambridge and Peterborough.
The first station to exist in Ipswich was not the present one of today in fact the first one was located on the south end of Stoke Tunnel known as Ipswich Stoke Hill which opened in 1846 by the Eastern Union Railway which at the time situated to a nearby old quay.
Todays station was constructed by the Ipswich & Bury Railway which opened it's line from Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds after the former Ipswich Stoke Hill was opened.
Next to open was the East Suffolk Line which was run by the Halesworth, Beccles and Haddiscoe Railway which first opened to the three station in 1854 which eventually was taken over by the East Suffolk Railway in 1858 which around that time expanded North to Lowestoft, East to Great Yarmouth and South to Ipswich in 1859.
The present Ipswich station was re-sited to todays location in 1860 which today has 4 Platforms with Platforms 2, 3 and 4 being through ones whilst Platform 1 is a bay Platform.
It came at a time when the railways of East Anglia were in financial trouble until it was amalgamated by the Great Eastern Railway including taking over the Eastern Counties Railway and the East Suffolk Railway in 1862.
In 1877 the Felixstowe Railway & Pier Company opened it's branch Line from Felixstowe which follows the course of the East Suffolk Line until after Westerfield.
Platforms 3 and 4 date from expansion in 1883
Stoke Tunnel is the only tunnel on the entire Great Eastern Main Line which at it's southern end use to be where the former GER Engine Shed which was the 3rd largest after Stratford and Cambridge however it closed in 1968.
The former footbridge had to be removed in 1983 to make room for the electrification of the GEML which arrived at Ipswich on April 17th 1985 with electric services however it wasn't until May 1st when Intercity services began running electric services to Ipswich.
However at Ipswich for trains continuing to Norwich would require a change of locomotive to a Class 47 which took over until Norwich however that practice would continue for 2 more years until the electric wires arrived in Norwich in May 1987.
A 2nd footbridge to enable step free access with lifts to all Platforms was opened in June 2011 which since that time that all services are now operated by Greater Anglia managed by Abellio.
The Class 755 Flirts were built by Stadler in Bossang, Switzerland, and Siedice in Poland with the 3 car sets being 755/3s and 4 car sets being 755/4s not only run in electric mode between Ipswich and Stowmarket, Ely to Stansted Airport as well as Norwich to Colchester.
In diesel mode on non-electrified the 3 Deutz 16 Litre V8 Engines and 755/4s have 4 which are situated in a power pack rather than underneath the carriage. The power pack has a passageway for passengers to pass through without the usual end gangways.
They first entered service between July 2019 and January 2020 when it took over all the rural routes displacing the Class 153s, 156s and Class 170s.
Today they operate from Ipswich hourly services to Felixstowe, Lowestoft, Cambridge via Newmarket and once every 2 hours to Peterborough via Ely.
The Class 745s nowadays the main intercity which like the 755s were also built by Stadler with the 745s being built in Bossang, Switzerland which replaced the Class 90s loco hauled sets between September 2019 and March 2020 which today provide a half hourly service from London Liverpool Street to Norwich.
The Class 745 and 755 Flirts are maintained at Crown Point Depot near Norwich.
The Class 321s which operate an hourly service mostly terminate via Platform 4 were at the time of filming are in their last months of operation on the Great Eastern Main Line and are gradually being replaced by new Class 720 Aventras being built in Derby which since January 2021 now being built and maintained by Alstom.
The Class 720s began running in November 2020 which originally ordered in August 2016 as 89 720/5s (5 car) and 22 720/1s (10 Car) however in September 2020 the order was revised on the 720/1s to 44 5 car sets which according to Greater Anglia was to enable flexibility.
The full fleet replacement is due to be completed by Mid 2023.
Some of the former ex GA Class 90s were moved over to Freightliner to replace the Class 86s for electric services whilst other services are hauled by Class 66s or Class 70s.
A lot has changed over the years at Ipswich however even today some of the originality of the former GER still remains intact even today.
Music used:
JJD - Adventure
Music provided by NCS
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Filmed on IPhone 12 Pro on Saturday August 6th 2022 and edited on iMovie
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[@PK345Transport]

Nice video 😊

[@RoscoTrain107]

Thanks

[@PK345Transport]

@@RoscoTrain107 np

[@theotrain745official]

Excited for this!

[@RoscoTrain107]

Indeed

[@Midlandstransporthub]

Great video! Love the intro too. Subscribed!

[@explorewithlorenzo9940]

Amazing video at Ipswich Railway Station RoscoTrain107 👍🏻:)!

[@RoscoTrain107]

Thanks Lorenzo

[@explorewithlorenzo9940]

@@RoscoTrain107 No problem RoscoTrain107 👍🏻:)!

[@squidgytop.2050]

What is the point of the station to have those express markers?

[@Saismee]

Which markers do yo mean?