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    Publicly-owned train services. // Credit: DFTO

    DFTO announces major plans for train operators

    The Department for Tranport Operator (DFTO) has announced major changes for publicly owned train operators during the coming year
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    Roger Smith 7 January, 2026
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    Old analogue equipment on the left, with the new digital replacement equipment on the right

    Great Eastern Main Line Services To Be Disrupted This Month

    This month, Network Rail will be working on the Norwich end of the Great Eastern main line in order to complete the next stage of upgrading signalling…
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    Emma Holden 10 November, 2025
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    Sir Berkeley

    Mid Suffolk Light Railway Host A Number of Early Summer Events

    The Mid Suffolk Light Railway have announced their upcoming events this July.
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    Victoria Thompson 30 June, 2025
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    Greater Anglia train at Lowestoft

    Greater Anglia Provides Additional Late Train for First Light Festival

    To allow people to travel back to Ipswich after Lowestoft's First Light Festival on the 21st June, Greater Anglia will run an extra train.
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    Victoria Thompson 31 May, 2025
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    Diesels at the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway

    Mid-Suffolk Light Railway appeals for funds to build carriage shed

    The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, known as the Middy, is appealing for donations to build a carriage shed at Dovebrook.
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    Janine Booth 8 May, 2025
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    Eastern Rail Services Class 08. // Credit: Branch Line Society

    Branch Line Society to run tour of Eastern Rail Services at Great Yarmouth

    The Branch Line Society is offering the chance to visit Eastern Rail Services site at Great Yarmouth and enjoy haulage behind a Class 08 shunter.
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    Roger Smith 26 March, 2025
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    Suffolk level crossing replaced by safer footpath

    Network Rail has promised that the new footpath it has installed at Gipsy Lane in Needham Market, Suffolk, is safer than the pedestrian level crossing…
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    Janine Booth 20 March, 2025
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    D213 Andania leaves Bury Bolton Street for Heywood

    Class 40 locomotive to visit Norwich this Saturday

    Class 40 No. D213 Andania is set to visit Norwich this Saturday (1st March 2025). Departing Crewe at 06:39, the locomotive will take passengers onboard…

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    Michael Holden 27 February, 2025
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    An artist's impression of an ‘AVA’ bridge

    Work begins on new type of accessible footbridge at Suffolk rail station

    Greater Anglia has announced that it has started work to install a new type of footbridge at Stowmarket station.
    janine
    Janine Booth 31 January, 2025
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    New 'AVA' bridge at Stowmarket. // Credit: Greater Anglia

    New design of modular bridge being installed at Suffolk station

    A new footbridge being installed at Stowmarket station is the first ‘AVA’ bridge in the UK, which is modular and cheaper and quicker to construct…
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    Roger Smith 9 December, 2024
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