The original intermediate stations were at Bentley Church, Capel and Raydon Wood.

[2] The station building was very ornate, if somewhat dwarfed by the adjacent malt houses, with attractive coupled chimneys and unusual windows with the frame and arch of stone.

[3] The decline in passenger numbers using the branch can be seen in the patronage figures, which were 14,447 in 1923 compared to 5,086 just five years later.

A proposal to extend services by building a light railway between Hadleigh and Long Melford was reported in the Haverhill Echo on 10 March 1900,[5] but that was not done.

The route to Raydon Wood is accessible as the Hadleigh Railway Walk.