Six Trust volunteers – including for the first time new team members Keith and Linda, enjoyed the ambience of the Wenhaston woodland today – and (I think) enjoyed the clearance as well. Our new volunteers are railway people, which always
On a Saturday and a Wednesday in early May, volunteers managed to tick off a number of outstanding jobs, and make good progress with others. The exterior of coach 7 (apart from the doors) is now close to completion –
Another beautiful spring day – we do seem to be very lucky with this – perhaps to offset our frustration about the planning situation! On Wednesday April 30th, four volunteers – John, Bob, Toby and James – started with the
The Trust’s onsite gang of intrepid volunteers have got well stuck in to the spring work at Wenhaston. Our locally-based contractor Luke Wilby has greatly improved the Blyford Lane entrance, first widening the splay to the road, and then hardening
A number of scheduled workparties, and one or two extra days, have really started to show results with coach 7 and the wagon underframe. Panelling for the coach Southwold end is measured for order, a great deal of finicky work
The Wenhaston team get stuck in to yet more stumps – which seem to stretch on for ever. There’s a large concentration about half way through the woodland strip, however, which will be very hard indeed to do by hand.
Wednesday March 12th saw a Wenhaston team onsite in the now-expected, but still unseasonal, sunshine. The main job on hand was to mark each chain end along the trackbed, so that the survey can have points for measurement – and
On the morning of Saturday 15th March, volunteers – with the essential help of Wenhaston member Roger Desborough and his tractor and trailer – collected around 188 feet of rail from two locations. Thanks to the generosity of the Trustees
On Wednesday March 5th, Rolling Stock Group volunteers cleared the inner and outer parts of the workshop, tidying away building materials, timber and assorted bits and pieces. All our (increasingly large numbers of) tools are now logically distributed on the
On Saturday March 1st, the SR volunteers ticked off a job which has been worked on, on and off, for some months. The steel frame of the coach sides having previously been treated for rust and painted, the new treated