The Leiston Works Railway (LWR) group has applied for planning permission to reinstate the line, which was abandoned in the late 1960s, ...

The Long Shop in Leiston, Suffolk, ... Now a museum, the factory was built as part of the Leiston Works, run by the Garrett family from 1778 to 1932.

John Keeble, trustee of Leiston Works Railway Trust, said: "Hopefully in a year to two years we will have the line down and Sirapite going up it." ...

A VICTORIAN factory which housed the world's first purpose-built assembly line is set to receive £1.9million funding to protect its industrial heritage.

Suffolk’s rich engineering heritage was seen and experienced by families visiting Leiston’s famous factory museum.

Leiston - or Leiston-cum-Sizewell, to give it its full name - is a town which lies 25 miles from Ipswich, five miles from Saxmundham, and three miles from the existing Sizewell B power station.

Now a museum, the factory was built as part of the Leiston Works, run by the Garrett family from 1778 to 1932. They produced agricultural machinery and early steam engines.

A factory that housed the first purpose-built flow assembly line is awarded a £1.9m grant.