A Suffolk organisation aims to get more people walking this Spring with a series of free guided walks.

The East Suffolk Lines Community Rail Partnership will run a guided walk over five Saturdays from 29 February until 4 April with each one starting and ending at a Greater Anglia rail station on the Ipswich – Lowestoft and Felixstowe rail lines.

The Partnership’s Chairman, Aaron Taffera, says he hopes that because the walks start and end at the train station people will come from far and wide to enjoy them – and be able to leave the car at home.

Fare dodgers were ordered to pay almost £400,000 after Greater Anglia prosecuted people caught riding trains without tickets over a two-month period.

More than 1,300 people were prosecuted between 1 December 2019 and 31 January 2020 after they were caught without tickets on Greater Anglia trains.

Magistrates imposed fines of more than £150,000 and costs of more than £235,000 on people who were accused of fare evasion across the network.

Cases were heard at courts across Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and London.

Rail passengers using Harlow Town rail station are benefiting from a new waiting room.

Greater Anglia has converted the open seating area on the overbridge into an enclosed waiting room with new seating, automatic doors to provide easy access for those with mobility issues, pushchairs and luggage, and charging points for laptops and mobile phones.

The new facility also benefits from a train departure summary screen, new flooring and energy-efficient heating.

Around 1 million people used Harlow Town last year.