Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway

The Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway was an 8-mile-42-chain light railway in Essex, England. It was authorised under the Light Railways Act 1896 and operated between the two villages of Kelvedon and Tollesbury to the south of Colchester. The line, which was part of the Great Eastern Railway , was authorised on 29 January 1901, although its opening was delayed until 1 October 1904.
The area served by the railway lay between the GER main line and the coast, mostly agricultural land, with fruit being a main crop. At Tiptree the jam-making firm Wilkin & Sons, founded in 1885, provided a large amount of the freight traffic; it had also been hoped that a tourist trade would ensue from the yachts moored near Tollesbury. The line became known locally as The Crab and Winkle Line, although the original railway to bear that name was the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, which used a play on the initial letters of the line.

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