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The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was an English railway company incorporated in 1836 intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester and then to Norwich and Yarmouth. Construction began in late March 1837 on the first nine miles at the London end. Construction was beset by engineering and other problems leading to severe financial difficulties. As a result the project was truncated in April 1839 to Colchester.