Another part of the major Ipswich Chord railway project has been completed with a new bridge span being moved into position.
The work is part of the scheme to create a direct link from the Port of Felixstowe to the Midlands and remove the need for freight trains to come into Ipswich first.
It should enable more containers from the port to be moved by rail and therefore taken off the roads.
On Christmas Eve the old bridge was removed, having had its track lifted, and will now be taken away for scrap.
On Christmas Day the new bridge, already in a position near the gap left by the old span, was slid into position and the track relaid.
The bridge, part of the East Suffolk line, should have trains running over it within a week.
The Ipswich Chord project itself is currently on target to be completed by April.
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