The Trust is pleased and thankful that the Co-operative Group has chosen our charity as one of the local beneficiaries for their community funding. https://causes.coop.co.uk/ We have a display in Southwold Co-op, where the Chairman spent a recent afternoon talking
Both membership numbers, and the size of volunteer teams, are rising quite fast now. On the SteamWorks site in Southwold, the new building (a bit over one third of the whole visitor centre) is well on the way to completion,
At the SteamWorks site in Southwold, the central part of the new visitor centre is almost complete, with just the roof cladding to complete, and services to put on. Trust volunteers laid a third panel of permanent track, plus a
On Wednesday May 3rd, Trust volunteers laid the first two permanent panels of three-foot-gauge rails on the new Southwold Railway – 88 years after closure. This will form part of the northern of the two roads inside the new rolling
The Trust held its third Model Show in Southwold on Saturday. Very ably organised by Show Manager John Ridgway, it was successful, with all the many visitors, as well as the exhibitors, having a good time. Quite a few of
Things are happening so fast with the Trust that it’s hard to keep up with it. On the Southwold Steam Works site at Blyth Road, further clearance and levelling have taken place, and the central core of the visitor centre
The Trust’s Architect and Trustee John Bennett has provided a Portacabin on our new land at Blyth Road, which can be used by volunteers as a staff mess, and as an onsite office. It was last used by Southwold’s lifeboat
We are very pleased to announce that, thanks to the generosity of our members and supporters, the Trust has taken possession of the Steam Works site at Blyth Road, Southwold. The Trust already has full planning permission to build 22-chains
After a hard half hour adjusting the position of “Blyth”’s frames (to allow more room for “Scaldwell”), the trackbed team kindly invited the workshop team to a barbeque on Trust land on Wednesday. The weather was (eventually) kind, and we
Apologies to our regular readers: our usual blogger has been out of action with flu. And everyone else is far too busy working on SRT projects to write about them! Large gangs of volunteers have continued to devote their time,