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@Greenbank
I think someone over on yacf with some connections in railways made some enquiries about running some a special train (or trains) with plenty of space for bikes using the Leiston/Sizewell branch all the way into London.
The biggest problem is that it's just too expensive. It's a one off with too high a cost of getting the train made up, from the depot to the east coast, staffing it with a guard and driver, getting it back to the depot after it's been used, etc, etc.
Unless, of course, you can find enough people happy to pay £30+ to get such a train, and that's for a single train; if you want to run it back/forth between Dunwich and London to give people a few options for leaving times then it's only going to get more expensive as it'll be needed for longer.