 Considering the greater resources of the Great Eastern Railway, local people requested a passenger service to Snape.The GER considered the potential, but reckoning with the necessity to provide a dedicated service (as it was at the end of a branch line) the GER considered that there was no possibility of such a service being affordable.Local people revived the proposal in 1864, even suggesting mixed trains as an alternative to dedicated passenger trains, but this was nevertheless uneconomic and the proposal was refused.