 Its authorised capital was increased to £450,000 (from the £150,000 of the HB&HR).Branches were included in the act, to Leiston, Snape Bridge, and Framlingham.The Eastern Counties Railway had vigorously opposed the Bill, seeing that it would abstract traffic from its own network, but as it observed that the Parliamentary process was moving towards approval of what became the East Suffolk Railway, the ECR adopted a more conciliatory stance.