Ghost Train: Bishop's Stortford to Braintree (Lost Essex Railways Animation)

An animated past vs present look at the lost railway line from Bishop's Stortford to Braintree! #bishopsstortford #essex #braintree #railway #disused #history

The line opened in 1869, and the BSD&BR company was absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway. Goods traffic developed healthily in the agricultural district served, but intermediate passenger business was slow. A sugar beet processing plant provided a considerable boost for the line.

Nevertheless, the decline in passenger carryings led to closure to passengers in 1952. General goods and certain specific traffics continued, but failure of a viaduct severed the route intermediately in 1966 and the line closed completely in 1972, except that the Braintree station continues in use as the terminal of the active branch line from Witham.

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