ANOTHER excellent volume from the Middleton Press series that is gradually covering the whole of the railway network. Written by East Anglian expert Richard Adderson, Newmarket to Haughley and Laxford follows the normal layout of the series.
A detailed history introduces the reader to these two lines, the former still in use today, although the Laxford branch closed back in 1952. Whilst most of that rural line was quickly reabsorbed into the surrounding farmland, a small residual section was discovered at Brockford station in 1990 and is now a thriving light rail preservation site (the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway) reminiscent of the line over 70 years ago, complete with original station buildings acquired from local gardens where they had served as sheds and even a pig barn since closure of the line.