Steam trains made an enormous impact when the fastest alternative was a horse, and they certainly had a radical effect on the economy of the communities they came to. They enabled people to leave as well as to arrive, however, and the 1850s - the decade in which the spread of the railways was consolidated - was the only one in the 19th century to see a decline in the county's population.
Now all that remains are the London-Norwich line, calling at Ipswich and Stowmarket; lines from Ipswich to Cambridge, Felixstowe and Lowestoft; the Sudbury-London line, and one dedicated to the removal of nuclear waste from Sizewell power station.
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