Land access The Wenhaston team have been waiting – quite impatiently – for the birds’ nesting season to end, as many of the activities onsite were (quite rightly) constrained by the restrictions. A few days after the season ended, therefore,
Good Progress on the Trackbed Members’ Walk
The Trust’s Wenhaston Environmental Team have continued, despite a major increase in biting insects onsite (good for the birds, anyway!) to clear and make safe the trackbed path. Many decades-worth of soil and detritus have washed down from the field
A “Flying” Loco Chassis
Saturday’s team worked on three projects – Van 40, Coach 7 and locomotive “Blyth”. All the timber drilling and rebating on the van underframe was completed, and the last section of coach ceiling (Southwold end) rubbed down, filled, and primed.
Coach 7 body exterior, and much of interior, complete
The Trust’s intrepid Rolling Stock Group team, led by Bernie Ward, has completed the exterior of SR Coach 7 (the Belgian tram trailer). Restoring this coach has been a (more than) two year marathon. Although most of the main structure
No 7 and No 40 start to look like the real thing
Two working days in early June – one scheduled and one extra – brought our two main projects – Coach 7 and Van 40 – nearer to completion. On Coach 7 the concertina doors – which have been a marathon
Our Volunteers’ lives are made a little easier – by the Planning Dept.!
The Trust, in keeping with its policy of continuing to apply for various planning permissions at Wenhaston, recently made a small application for some very simple onsite facilities for the volunteers who are looking after, and improving, the site. Thanks
The Trust Team Defies the Weather , Keeps Calm, and Carries On
Southwold Railway volunteers are not daunted by the threat of torrential rain – although Wednesday turned out better than Tuesday, one might have forgiven them for not chancing it. But the potential enjoyment of playing with the new 4-tonne ratchet
Van 40’s underframe nears completion, and Coach 7 shines
By the end of the second May Bank Holiday weekend, the Trust’s rolling stock was visibly moving on. Coach 7’s body is complete outside (except for some more work on some of the doors), and is resplendent in maroon, cream
Southwold Railway Walk
The latest Southwold Railway Walk is from Wenhaston to Blythburgh, on Saturday 24 May 2014, at 10:30 AM. Join us for a guided walk between Wenhaston and Halesworth, along the accessible parts of the Southwold Railway trackbed (there are some
Trust Shop Manager receives an Award
Stewart Green, Southwold Railway Trust shop manager, who is also the Trust’s most prestigious model railway engineer, has just exhibited his famous “Southwold (1922)” layout at Bognor Regis. The layout won the exhibitors’ vote for the best in show –