The Mid-Suffolk Railway has submitted a planning application to more than double the length of its running line. Since opening to the public 12 years ago, the light railway has made do with shuttle services along 450 yards of track at its Brockford base, near Wetheringsett. It now wishes to lay track along a further 650 yards of trackbed running along the edge of a neighbouring field, giving a round trip of more than a mile. The landowner - a great supporter of the railway - has already granted the necessary lease. A run-round and new terminus station, to be called Blacksmith's Green, would be built at the end of the extension and would be based on Wilby Halt, a station on the original Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, which closed in 1952.
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