 The company was a separate, but associated, company to the Tendring Hundred Railway which had built the line from Colchester to Wivenhoe.The GER soon negotiated to buy both the Tendring Hundred Railway and the Clacton-on-Sea Railway, and both became part of the GER on 1 July 1883.The Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea was absorbed by the GER on 9 June 1893.