Editing Southwold (section)

===Railway===
[[File:Southwold Lighthouse.jpg|thumb|The lighthouse]]
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The narrow-gauge [[Southwold Railway]] connecting the town to [[Halesworth]] ran from 24 September 1879 to 11 April 1929.<ref name="mitchell">{{Cite book |title=Branch Line to Southwold |last1=Mitchell |first1=V. |last2=Smith |first2=K. |year=1984 |publisher=Middleton Press |isbn=0-906520-15-0}}</ref>

In 2007 the Southwold Railway Society submitted plans to build a new line between the parish of [[Easton Bavents]] and Henham Park, to link the town to the nearest mainline service at [[Halesworth railway station|Halesworth]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.southwoldrailway.co.uk/project/index.php |title=The Project to Re-instate the Southwold Railway |publisher=Southwoldrailway.co.uk |date=5 July 2007 |access-date=23 February 2013 |archive-date=3 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303115727/http://www.southwoldrailway.co.uk/project/index.php |url-status=dead}}</ref> However, these plans were criticised for having no relation to the original route of the railway and for environmental and other reasons. In July 2007 the plans were rejected by [[Waveney District|Waveney]] and by [[Suffolk Coastal]] District Councils.<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 July 2007 |url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED05%20Jul%202007%2000%3A18%3A11%3A157 |title=Southwold railway – last hopes dashed |publisher=EADT online |access-date=20 July 2006}}</ref> In December 2008 the Society introduced a new proposal for a Railway Park, including railway track and a museum, on a site at present occupied by a car-breaker's yard, next to the local sewage works.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 December 2008 |url=http://www.advertiser24.co.uk/content/advertiser24/news/story.aspx?brand=WAVOnline&category=News&tBrand=WAVOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED18%20Dec%202008%2009%3A02%3A05%3A483 |title=Tentative Approval for Southwold Railway |publisher=Norwich Advertiser |access-date=2 January 2009 |archive-date=23 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223193538/http://www.advertiser24.co.uk/content/advertiser24/news/story.aspx?brand=WAVOnline&category=News&tBrand=WAVOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED18%20Dec%202008%2009%3A02%3A05%3A483 |url-status=dead}}</ref> That proposal was superseded by another, in which a short section of railway, together with other attractions and facilities, would be constructed in the village of [[Wenhaston]], a few miles inland from Southwold and once a stop on the Southwold Railway. The plan did not meet with universal approval.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 May 2012 |url=http://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/wenhaston_villagers_hope_to_derail_southwold_railway_trust_plan_1_1388986 |title=Wenhaston villagers hope to derail Southwold Railway Trust plans |publisher=Lowestoft Journal |access-date=26 May 2012 |archive-date=30 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430053140/http://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/wenhaston_villagers_hope_to_derail_southwold_railway_trust_plan_1_1388986 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In February 2016, the original Railway Park proposal for Blyth Road, Southwold, on the site of the town's former gasholders, was revived, and a new planning application was submitted and approved. Construction of the Railway Park began in 2017.