We’re normally a pretty hardy bunch here at Southwold, having soldiered on through heavy winter rain or when being pestered by clouds of midges in the hot summer months. [It’s amazing what the incentive of an al fresco barbecue will
Brrr……..!
Back in action for January
January in the UK is noted for the variability of its weather, and we have certainly had our share of strong winds onsite. The latest storm not only lifted some of the corrugated roofing on the engine shed and brought
“When the snow lay round about…”
The Leiston Works Railway and Friends Of Leiston Railway Facebook pages are well worth a visit if you haven’t come across them, with the restoration of their LMS brake van (under the supervision of our own Roger Gregory) well under
Happy Christmas 2017!
Since we moved into our site at Blyth Road in April of this year, we at the Southwold Railway Trust have been working like Trojans to transform the site into the ‘mini-Minsmere’ planned by our chairman, architect John Bennett. To
A giant cheque as winter draws in
What a boost to our endeavours! Generous Southwold Co-op customers made considerable charitable donations in-store over recent months, so much so that the Trust has been presented with a whopping £1198.95 towards our funds. Trust volunteer (and ex-Town Crier) John
Making the most of the weather…
Having featured our Wenhaston site in the previous blog, it’s now back to Blyth Road for most of the team. Under John Barber’s supervision the newly imported topsoil now has a splendid ‘revêtement’ (as James has it!) to support and
November news from Wenhaston
With all that is going on at Blyth Road, we still haven’t forgotten our site at Wenhaston and the volunteer team meet on the first Wednesday of each month to keep things tidy on site, while generally enjoying a bit
Autumn progress at SteamWorks
With apologies for the delay since the last post, here is an update on what has been happening throughout the last couple of months here at Southwold. Replica SR wagon 41 has now gained some sides! Work is continuing adding
Motor Rail loco moves between sidings – without any pointwork
Recently, the Trust wanted to move our on-loan (from owner Peter Nicholson) H-Class Motor Rail loco from one shed road at Southwold onto the other, where there’s a lot more room to work on it. Main problem – we have
SteamWorks proves a success
The Trust is still performing strongly at its new site in Southwold. The public were invited in through much of August, and seemed to enjoy what we have to offer – there was a lot of interest in Peckett “Scaldwell”,