Ray's third talk concerning the three railways which once formed the Eastern Region of the old British Railways. Following the openings, in successive years, of the significant main line stations at London Bridge, Euston and then Paddington, there followed a minor station in Mile End as the terminus of a railway planned to link the capital to Norwich via Colchester and Ipswich. Another early railway was to use the same terminus, but connect London to York via Cambridge and Lincoln. This second line ground to a halt halfway to Cambridge, but was piggy-backed by the first, who used it to gain access to Norwich via Cambridge and Ely, so deserting the planned shorter route via Ipswich. A rival concern based in Ipswich then rapidly completed the direct route. Not only did East Anglia then have two disjointed main line routes to Norwich, but also other independent connecting lines and a plethora of idiosyncratic rural branch routes, all of which amalgamated to form the Great Eastern Railway and then to after open their busy terminus in the City at Liverpool Street The story is told, and many of the routes are travelled in this presentation.