Love on a Branch Line (novel)

Love on a Branch Line is a 1959 comic novel by John Hadfield. The novel tells the story of a diffident member of the British Civil Service, Jasper Pye, who is sent to East Anglia to close a government department headquartered at a country estate. During the weekend he spends at the estate, he meets the people of the area and develops an affection for them and their home. The setting is loosely based on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway between Haughley and Laxfield, which closed in 1952, the year Hadfield moved to Suffolk.

The book was critically acclaimed and sold very well. It was adapted for a 1994 BBC television series, Love on a Branch Line, starring Michael Maloney as Jasper Pye and Leslie Phillips as Lord Flamborough.