 Norwich was later reached by a roundabout route through Ely in 1845, by the Norfolk Railway, which also connected Yarmouth, taking a southward course through Reedham, and in 1847 the Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company opened from Reedham to Lowestoft.The Eastern Union Railway connected Ipswich to Colchester (and London over the Eastern Counties line) after a delay, in 1846, and with its offshoot the Ipswich and Bury Railway, the EUR reached Norwich via Diss in 1849.Notwithstanding its earlier failure to complete its first line, the ECR considered itself to have primacy in building a railway network in the area, and it regarded the Eastern Union Railway as an interloper; the ECR engaged in some dubious obstructionism in a hostile relationship.