Great Eastern Railway. Improvements and Alterations

Description:

1. Widening and improvement of Newmarket and Bury Railway, Kennett to Bury St. Edmunds.

2. Diversion of road and stopping up of level crossing at Thetford, Norfolk.

3. Alteration and extension of Hills Road Bridge, Cambridge.

4. Alteration of the bridge carrying the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway over the North Woolwich Branch between Canning Town and Stratford Market Stations, Essex.

5. Additional land at Sawston.

Passing through the following parishes:

1. Kennett, (co. Cambridgeshire); Kentford, Gazeley, Barrow, Great Saxham, Little Saxham, Fornham All Saints, Westley, St. James in Bury St. Edmunds (all co. Suffolk).

2. Thetford St. Peter (co. Norfolk).

3. St. Andrew the Less (Cambridge).

4. West Ham (co. Essex).

5. Sawston (co. Cambridgeshire).

Comprising:

- Plans and sections: 8 sheets, each 22 x 30 (2 copies).

Scales:

1. Sections and cross sections: Horizontal- 4 chains (88 yards) to 1 inch;

- Section: Vertical- 60 feet to 1 inch;

- Plan: 4 chains (88 yards) to 1 inch.

2. & 3. Plan, sections and cross sections: Horizontal- 2 chains (44 yards) to 1 inch;

- Sections and cross sections: 20 feet to 1 inch.

4. Plan and section: Horizontal - 3 chains (66 yards) to 1 inch;

- Section: Vertical- 20 feet to 1 inch.

5. Plan: 2 chains (44 yards) to 1 inch.

Engineer John Wilson.

Act 48-49 Victoria, ch. xciii (1885).

Plan deposited 29 November, 1884