Editing Great Eastern Main Line (section)

====Inter-city====
Steam-hauled inter-city trains on the London-Norwich service were replaced by diesel power in the 1960s; locomotives from classes [[British Rail Class 40|40]], [[British Rail Class 37|37]] and [[British Rail Class 47|47]] hauled services until the mid-1980s.

[[Electric locomotives]] replaced diesel haulage from the mid-1980s, when the remainder of the GEML was electrified north of Colchester; their utilisation continued until March 2020. [[British Rail Class 86|Class 86]] locomotives powered the service from 1985 until 2005,<ref group=Note>Class 86s hauled services only as far as Ipswich between 1985 and 1987; Class 47s would continue to operate the Ipswich to Norwich section until electrification of this final stage was completed</ref> with rakes of [[British Rail Mark 2|Mark 2]] coaches. Push-pull services were introduced during their tenure, initially using a [[Driving Brake Standard Open|DBSO]] coach at the Norwich end and latterly with Mark 3 [[Driving Van Trailer]]s, cascaded from the [[West Coast Main Line]]. From 2004, [[British Rail Class 90|Class 90]] locomotives replaced the ageing Class 86s and rolling stock was updated with refurbished former West Coast Main Line [[British Rail Mark 3|Mark 3]] coaches, following the introduction of the [[British Rail Class 390|Class 390 ''Pendolino'']] stock on that route.

By March 2020, new {{Brc|745}} EMUs had fully replaced Class 90 and Mark 3 coaches; thereby ending locomotive operation on the inter-city services on the Great Eastern Main Line.<ref>[http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/abellio_wins_east_anglian_rail_franchise_for_nine_years_in_1_4bn_deal_1_4651285 Abellio wins East Anglian rail franchise for nine years in £1.4bn deal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925073542/http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/abellio_wins_east_anglian_rail_franchise_for_nine_years_in_1_4bn_deal_1_4651285 |date=25 September 2016 }} [[East Anglian Daily Times]] 10 August 2016</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/last-passenger-locomotive-in-east-anglia-1-6584993|title=End of the line for traditional trains on Greater Anglia routes|last=Geater|first=Paul|website=East Anglian Daily Times|date=30 March 2020 |language=en|access-date=31 March 2020}}</ref>