Yarmouth and Lowestoft have long been connected by railways, but although the Great Eastern Company had provided a choice of routes, there was no direct way. This is now in process of construction by a joint arrangement between the Great Eastern, Great Northern, and Midland Railway Companies; and the route, for the most part within a mile of the sea-coast, is from the Great Eastern Station at Lowestoft through Gunton, Hopton, Corton, and Gorleston to the Yarmouth Beach Station, a distance of a little more than nine miles.