The river was altered with the addition of 15 locks between Ipswich and Stowmarket to form the Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation, although this name has fallen out of use.

The navigation was completed in 1793 and three barges loaded with coal made the trip from Ipswich to Stowmarket on 14 September, rising through 15 locks of broad construction each, the draught being.

Initially, this involved the setting up of the Gipping Way, a footpath from Ipswich to Stowmarket which uses the towpath for most of its route.

Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation

Work started soon afterwards, and although John Rennie was officially Chief Engineer, the project was managed by Richard Coates, who had also assisted Rennie on the Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation.

From the Port of Felixstowe the road heads west, bypassing Ipswich to the south using the Orwell Bridge and on to Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket and Cambridge where it meets the M11.

Branch lines diverge at Romford, Shenfield, Witham, Marks Tey, Colchester, Ipswich, Stowmarket and Norwich, with through services operating to some destinations.

Stowmarket is a small market town situated in Suffolk, England, on the busy A14 trunk road between Bury St Edmunds to the west and Ipswich to the southeast.

In the 18th century the Gipping was made navigable between Stowmarket and Ipswich by a series of locks.

The newly created canal was known as the Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation.

There are regular bus connections to Ipswich, Bramford and Stowmarket from the centre of the village.

The history of company is the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket, Suffolk and they are also represented in Ipswich Transport Museum.

The line was 26. 5 miles long, with intermediate stations at Needham, Stowmarket, Haughley, Elswell and Thurston ; it is now part of the Ipswich to Ely Line.

The river served as an important carriageway between Brisbane and Ipswich before a railway linking the towns was built in 1875.

* Derby Road railway station, Ipswich, England

Two swing bridges carry the Lowestoft to Ipswich railway line and the A12 road over the cut to the east of the lock.

The Framlingham Branch line connected Framlingham with the main Ipswich to Lowestoft railway at Wickham Market.

The town is served by Witham railway station, situated on the London Liverpool Street to Ipswich main line operated by Greater Anglia.

This has since been successfully done by British Rail and its successors on lesser-used lines that survived the axe ( such as the East Suffolk Line from Ipswich to Lowestoft which survives as a " basic railway ").

The first bridge on the site was completed in July 1875 and enabled the Ipswich to Grandchester railway to reach Brisbane itself.

In the early days of settlement, the Brisbane River at Indooroopilly provided an obstacle to the construction of a railway between Brisbane and the mining centre of Ipswich.

The Ipswich railway line did not open until 1875, following the completion of the original Albert Bridge.

This second crossing was constructed in 1957 as part of the quadruplication of the Ipswich railway line.

The East West Rail Link is a proposed new rail route to provide a fast outer orbital railway to the north of London linking Great Western Main Line, Oxford, Bicester, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Cambridge, Ipswich and Norwich for both passenger traffic and freight which would relieve some pressure on the A14.

In its prime the railway station saw more than 20 services a day and is now served by an hourly service to Ipswich.

The single-track railway line to Ipswich has recently been upgraded to allow larger containers, and many containers are now transported by rail.

Ipswich and Newcastle Streets as well as the Monaro Highway cross the railway line uniting both halves of Fyshwick.

The railway from Ipswich was opened in 1867, bringing with it business development.

The East Anglia Main Line railway runs through the town, with Needham Market railway station providing trains to Ipswich, Cambridge and Peterborough.

The Great Eastern Main Line ( GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line ) is a 133 mile major railway line of the British railway system, which connects Liverpool Street in the City of London with destinations in east London and the East of England, including Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, Norwich and several coastal resorts such as Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze.

The section of line between Colchester and Ipswich was built by the Eastern Union Railway to standard gauge and opened for passenger traffic on 15 June 1846 and the route to Norwich ( Norwich Victoria railway station ) opened in 1849.

The only railway tunnel on the Great Eastern Main Line is just to the south of the current Ipswich railway station.

In 1875 a terminal station in Roma Street was constructed as part of the main western railway to Brisbane linking Ipswich and Toowoomba.

During the off-peak, services generally continue to Ipswich railway station on the Ipswich line.

The Ipswich River flows through town, flowing from the North Reading / Lynnfield line along the Peabody and Danvers borders before turning northward into town, exiting along the border between Boxford and Topsfield.

He rebuilt most of the locks and staunches in the 1830s, resulting in increased trade in coal and general merchandise which originated from Kings Lynn, but success was short lived, as the Eastern Union Railway opened a line from Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds in 1846, and decline was immediate.

By Train, the Milton Railway Station is the first station on the Ipswich line west of Roma Street Station.

All three roads are connected by Massachusetts Route 133, which passes from west to east through the town, becoming coextensive with Route 1A just north of the Ipswich town line and heading south with it.

A rail line has been proposed to run south from Ipswich to Yamanto and Ripley, eventually connecting with the Springfield line.

The Colchester line was extended to Ipswich in 1846, and to Norwich in 1849, but via the separate Eastern Union Railway, with which the ECR made an end-on connection.

Among the towns served were Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, King's Lynn, Lowestoft, Norwich, Southend-on-Sea, and East Anglian seaside resorts such as Hunstanton ( whose prosperity was largely a result of the GER's line being built ) and Cromer.

While in Ipswich, much of the route runs concurrently with Route 133 until just over the town line into Rowley.

A prospectus for the private " Moreton Bay Tramroad Company Limited ", with the intention of building a line from Ipswich to Toowoomba was advertised on 7 June, 1861, but was still born.

One of QR's first service was carrying school children and dignitaries on the first rail line in Queensland running from Ipswich to Grandchester.

It runs through Brisbane's northern suburbs to Caboolture, and connects to the Sunshine Coast via the North Coast line, and connects with the Ipswich line south-west of Brisbane.