Before the Mildenhall railway Cambridge to Mildenhall railway



the cambridge mildenhall line in 1895


in eighteenth , nineteenth area later served mildenhall branch productive of agricultural produce. villages west of fordham relied on lodes connect waterborne transport river great ouse. mildenhall itself, lying east of fordham, used river lark transport artery. there no satisfactory road network @ time, , water transport used universally, although slow, , imperfect conveyance of food crops.


in 1840s easy money of railway mania encouraged numerous railway schemes in area, , cambridge connected railway network in 1845 part of scheme link london , norwich. july 1862 great eastern railway formed, taking on of former individual concerns in area.


at time there main line cambridge ely , king s lynn, old eastern counties railway line ely norwich, , former newmarket railway lines cambridge , great chesterford bury st edmunds. speed , efficiency of railways enhanced feeling mildenhall, not connected network, @ disadvantage.


in september 1867 charles peter allix of swaffham prior prepared possible railway scheme , submitted great eastern railway, hoping adopt idea , build railway, opening area in interested, ger declined, no doubt believing money spent on serving remote , thinly populated area wasted. ger had other priorities available finance @ time. following rebuff, allix tried interest london , north western railway, running cambridge via bedford, declined.








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