EASTERN UNION RAILWAY, a railway system in Suffolk. It includes the original Eastern Union, from Colchester to Ipswich; the Ipswich and Bury, to Bury-St. Edmunds, with extension from Haughley to Norwich; the Trowse branch of 2 miles, to connect with the Eastern Counties; and an extension or branch to Woodbridge;-and it was incorporated with other systems, in 1862, to form the Great Eastern.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))