The Southwold Railway Trust has completed the purchase of 31 acres of pasture land in Wenhaston! Along the southern edge of the site is the trackbed of the original Southwold Railway. We hope that in the near future it will be
The Southwold Railway Trust is naturally disappointed that Suffolk Coastal’s planning committee refused the application for a Southwold Railway Heritage Centre at Wenhaston last Wednesday, 5th December. However, we are much encouraged by the close vote – 5 to 3
Well, the October deadline has passed and we are currently told it will be a few more weeks. Nothing much else we can do but wait..
Suffolk Coastal District Council have deferred the planning decision date once again – the latest date is October 10th. Glad they’re doing the job thoroughly! Let’s hope for a positive outcome for us. Their website doesn’t make it easy to register
Just to keep our readers up-to-date: the planning application deadline has been deferred until September 12th. If you haven’t yet registered your online support there’s still time to go to the Suffolk Coastal Distric Council website and follow the links;
While we still await the outcome of our planning application we have now introduced an online facility to enable sponsors to help us acquire the monies need to purchase the Wenhaston station site. Just visit the “22 Club” pages to
The Southwold Railway Trust has submitted a planning application to build a replica station at Wenhaston, a maintenance and visitor building, car park and landscaping. None of this can happen unless the SRT secures ownership of the land. With other
On 9th March our civil engineering designer David Negus introduced John Goldsmith (Aurum Ecology) and your friendly blogmaster, Stewart Green, to the proposed site of our Wenhaston Station Heritage Centre. John will be doing a wildlife impact report for our
We were delighted to be able to present our plans for reinstating part of the Southwold Railway adjacent to the original station site at Wenhaston recently. There was much positive feedback from local residents and we have been able to
The view from inside the carriage on the Cavan & Leitrim Railway at Dromod. Michael Kennedy (standing) has, almost single-handedly, provided sanctuary for destitute cars, buses, aircraft, hearses, and locos and rolling stock of both 2′ and 3′ gauge. He