With the end of the old year, the Trust can look back at a series of great achievements over 2014. Volunteer attendances at our working days at both Wenhaston and Southwold have crept up in numbers – as has Trust
End of Year round-up
Season’s Greetings
The Southwold RailwayTrust would like to wish all our members, supporters and well-wishers a very Happy Christmas. Special greetings and thanks to Duncan’s Builders (for putting up with us at the workshop for another year), Roger Desborough (storage and transport
The Trust gets a Christmas present
On a blustery but warm Monday December 22nd, the team arrived early and (after the usual compulsory teas) proceeded to make ready for the next stock move. James had done a series of ever-more-pessimistic method statements, each one starting: “And
Another stock move
On Saturday December 20th, a (for us) very large team efficiently carried out the first part of Big Shunt II. This was pretty well a repeat of Big Shunt I (bear with me), but faster, easier and more organised. Thanks
No 3 “Blyth” pre Project re-launch preparatory work
At 08.00 on Thursday December 11th (and a cold, damp, dark morning it was), one of the Trust’s contractors – CAD Bureau Southern Ltd. from Essex – came to the workshop to measure our steam locomotive frames, buffer beams, stretchers,
“Big Shunt One” Phases One and Two Highly Successful
On Sunday November 30th, the Big Shunt One Phase One day arrived. We have waited impatiently for this day: organising it was complex, with the need for a large team, appropriate rail panels, a cleared yard, and transport. However –
The Trust flies the flag at the Warley Show, Birmingham
Trust volunteers recently took the SRT promotional stand to the Warley Show at the National Exhibition Centre. Our Shop Manager Stewart Green, who is also a highly skilled modeller, exhibited his layouts “Bird’s Folly” and “Bridge over the Blyth” –
The Trust launches the Heritage Train Project
Southwold Railway Trains were almost always mixed – with a selection of freight vehicles marshalled between the locomotive and the passenger coaches. The railway’s ability to move large quantities of goods – mainly coal, but also a very large variety
A Southwold Railway passenger coach moves on rails – about 25 feet – the longest SR stock move since the railway was scrapped in WWII
Almost the entire SRT Rolling Stock Group attended our workshop day on Saturday 31st, in amazingly fine weather. The plan was to cut, drill and assemble three track panels of ex-Bressingham rail to allow a trial move of Coach 7
Work at Wenhaston Station and on the Trackbed
Although Wednesday October 29th was scheduled to be wet, we had a good and dry day until almost the end. The team first collected five standard gauge sleepers donated by a supporter in Reydon. These are of good quality timber