and changed the company name to Felixstowe Dock and Railway. As the docks have expanded since the 1960s, so to have the railways to serve them. A Freightliner Terminal was opened in 1967 and this was followed by a Northern Freightliner Terminal and branch to which was completed in 1987. In June 2013 the Northern terminal was renamed Central Terminal when a new North terminal opened on an adjacent site. This new terminal is the first in the United Kingdom that can handle 30-wagon trains capable of carrying 90 TEUs. It is equipped with three Liebherr rail mounted gantry cranes but these will be increased to six when traffic expands. The following locomotives have worked for the Port of Felixstowe (as it is now known), most of which have been former British Rail locomotives. Freightliner UK also keep a Class 08 at Felixstowe for shunting its trains. The locomotive is exchanged from time to time for maintenance purposes. Cranes In 1927 American firm Crane-Bennett opened a rail served works south of Derby Road. Rail traffic finished in mid-1970s. The following locomotives are known to have worked at Cranes. Ransomes In 1950 a private siding was installed at Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies' works south of Derby Road. Rail traffic finished in 1980. The following locomotives are known to have worked at Ransomes. Proposed developments As of August 2019 there are no proposed changes to the Felixstowe branch. Film and television Felixstowe Town featured in the 1954 film The Sea Shall Not Have Them with two scenes of an Ipswich-based LNER Class F6 2-4-2T locomotive arriving at the station. The branch line featured in the final episode of Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days. Palin was given a lift by a lorry driver from Felixstowe Port to Felixstowe Town Station, and is shown boarding a class 101 DMU to Ipswich. An episode of Michael Portillo's third BBC Great British Railway Journeys finished at the Port of Felixstowe where the growth of railways in the docks was explained. Notes References Further reading Hansard: second reading of the Great Eastern Railway and Felixstowe Railway and Dock Companies Bill Hansard: petition for the Felixstowe, Ipswich, and Midlands Railway Bill External links Felixstowe Travel Watch Trimley Station Community Trust Rail transport in Suffolk Great Eastern Railway Railway lines in the East of England Transport in Ipswich Railway companies established in 1875 Railway lines opened