On Wednesday 11th January, our largest team for several months was not put off by having to do some paperwork and safety instruction before starting work: as the Trust’s activities grow in size and number, there is inevitably more formality
The Trust confidentially expects 2017 to be the breakthrough year to begin the restoration of the Southwold Railway. 2016 was a mixed year, with another disappointment at Wenhaston on the planning front well balanced by the receipt of our first
The Southwold Railway Trust received its first Award on Wednesday, December 8th. At the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in Threadneedle Street, London, the Trust’s volunteers were awarded a “Highly Commended” rating for the restoration of original SR trackside fencing at Wenhaston,
Two SRT Trustees – Ken and James – attended the Leiston Works Railway’s AGM on Tuesday 22nd, in the beautiful location of the Long Shop Museum. We were made very welcome, hearing not only about progress at the LWR, but
The Trust is very pleased to announce that we now own a complete steam locomotive. Three-foot-gauge 0-6-0ST Peckett “Scaldwell” of 1913 has been donated to the SRT by Amberley Museum http://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/ , to whom we are profoundly appreciative. More details
On Friday November 11th, the Trust attended an East Suffolk Partnership Forum event at the Conference Centre at Suffolk Showground – a very nice building indeed. We made lots of good contacts, and were able to inform South Suffolk organisations
On Wednesday November 9th, on a cold day with heavy rain, a surprisingly large team assembled at the Wenhaston Community café. Even more surprising was the decision of the majority to continue with landscaping and clearance on the trackbed: this
Our decorative fencing and gates at Blyford Lane (restoring the “1879 look”) are complete, and we have had many favourable comments from local residents. The team has now moved back to the trackbed, where there remains one last part of
Outside work, somewhat interrupted by rain, has concentrated on the decorative station fencing at Blyford Lane, Wenhaston. Led most ably by John B, the volunteers have erected almost all the Midland Railway style double-diagonal timber fencing, using treated timber from
Supremely satisfying though it would be to be actually re-building Wenhaston Station (which at the moment we can’t do), it is nevertheless pretty good to build the ancillaries. On Wednesday 5th October, the team got on very nicely, in suddenly