The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the warm hose, were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.

apace, afire, aboil, a-bling

The line is single track as far as Halesworth, but many of the stations retain their original buildings - including refurbished Beccles, which boasts a station cafe and community rooms. The same is true of Wickham Market and Woodbridge stations. You could easily pile on the pounds with a 'cafe crawl' along this line!

… till at last it wrote in a Germanish hand, with the m's and the r's and the l's all exactly alike, …