Editing Great Eastern Main Line (section)

===The privatisation era (1994 onwards)===
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Between 1997 and 2004, services into [[Essex]] and some into [[Suffolk]] were operated by [[First Great Eastern]], whilst services into [[Norfolk]] and other [[Suffolk]] services were operated by [[Anglia Railways]]. Between 2004 and 2012, services out of Liverpool Street, except for a limited number of [[c2c]] trains, were all operated by [[National Express East Anglia]]. Since 2012, the franchise has been operated by [[Abellio Greater Anglia]]; in May 2015, the Shenfield "metro" stopping service transferred to [[TfL Rail]], as a precursor to [[Elizabeth line|Elizabeth Line]] services.

Liverpool Street IECC replaced [[signal box]]es at Bethnal Green (closed 1997), Bow (closed 1996), Stratford (GE panel closed 1997), Ilford (closed 1996), Romford (closed 1998), Gidea Park (closed 1998), Shenfield (closed 1992) and Chelmsford (closed 1994). The system uses BR Mark 3 solid state interlockings, predominantly four-aspect signals and a combination of Smiths clamp-lock and GEC-Alsthom HW2000 point machines.

The first signal box to be closed and transferred to Liverpool Street IECC was Shenfield in 1992, which had only opened 10 years earlier. The last boxes to be transferred were at Romford and Gidea Park in 1998; these were the oldest of those being transferred, having been opened under the GER/LNER 1924 resignalling scheme.