Middy in the War Years is one of the railway's most popular events.
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Suffolk's only standard-gauge heritage railway is to open for the first time this year with its popular "Middy in the War Years" event.
And for the first time the American troops and British Home Guard are to be joined by a detachment of German Mountain Troops - although they will be kept at the other end of the line.
Re-enactment groups showing German troops have been controversial on some heritage railways, but Mid Suffolk Light Railway spokesman John Reeve said organisers had discussed their offer to come along.