trains without the need to shunt the carriages out of the station. The GER and Norwich Thorpe changed little for the next 30 years. On 22 May 1916, the GER closed Trowse station as a wartime economy measure. That meant the first station south of Thorpe on the Ipswich line was Swainsthorpe and the next station west of Thorpe on the Ely line was Hethersett. On 1 April 1919, five months after the end of the war, the GER reopened Trowse station. The GER went out of existence following the creation of the "Big Four" railway companies in 1923. London and North Eastern Railway (1923-1947) On 1 January 1923, the GER amalgamated with several other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). This was as a result of the Railways Act 1921, which saw most of the 120 railway companies grouped into four main companies, in an effort to stem their losses. Norwich Thorpe became an LNER asset. During World War II the station was bombed in June 1940 and April 1942. Following the Transport Act 1947 the Big Four railway companies, including the LNER, were amalgamated into the nationalised British Railways (BR). British Railways (1948-1994) On 1 January 1948, the nationalisation of Britain's railways saw the operation of Norwich Thorpe station pass to British Railways (Eastern Region). Platform 6 was added in 1954 and a modern booking hall was built in 1955. During the late 1950s, steam locomotives were phased out across the East Anglian network and replaced by diesel-powered trains. After Norwich City station was closed as part of the Beeching cuts, British Rail decided to revert the name of the station to Norwich, which took effect on 5 May 1969. When the station closed briefly for electrification works in 1986, , a disused suburban station, was put back into service as the temporary terminus of the line. It closed again when Norwich re-opened. The signalling was also modernised at that time and the track layout simplified. On completion of the electrification project, Norwich-London InterCity trains switched from being hauled by Class 47 diesel locomotives to Class 86 electric locomotives. The privatisation era (1994-present) On 1 April 1994, under the Railways Act 1993, ownership of the station passed to a new private company, Railtrack, which was restructured into Network Rail in 2004. Train services to Norwich were later privatised, with most services passing to Anglia