Southwold Railway Useful Links
You will find below some useful links to further information about the Southwold Railway and other preservation projects in East Anglia (currently
11 links in total).
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Potted History of the SR from the Blythburgh History Notes
A short outline if the SR's history by David Lee. This website has several other interesting historical articles.
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Southwold Museum's section on the SR
The Southwold Museum website has lots of information about the Southwold Railway as well as lots of stuff about other kinds of transport through the ages.
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Whitwell & Reepham Railway
The latest East Anglian railway preservation group - committed to restoring this mid-Norfolk station to a working museum. Now running live steam on the first Sunday of each month.
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Bure Valley Railway
Travel behind powerful 15" gauge steam locomotives through the scenic Heart of the Norfolk Broads from Aylsham to Wroxham (Hoveton).
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Mid Suffolk Light Railway
The 'Middy' - as it was affectionately known - was a classic case of a rural railway that never paid its way but managed to struggle on for half a century. The memory of this fine example of quirky English history is kept alive at Suffolk's only railway museum at Brockford.
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Narrow Gauge Railway Society
The Narrow Gauge Railway Society has a huge amount of information about narrow guage railways all over the world
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Norfolk Railway Society
Norwich-based group for people interested in railways in Norfolk and East Anglia
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Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
An historic Welsh rural light railway surviving for over a century. Opened in 1903, this line still operates two of the original steam locomotives. It served the local farming communities until closure in 1965, but re-opened as a tourist line in 1963 over most of the original route.
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Leiston Works Railway
Working to relay track between the Long Shop Museum (formerly 'Town Works') and the former 'Station (or Top) Works by Leiston Station on the branch to Aldeburgh. The shunting engine SIRAPITE (used from 1929-1962) has recently been fully restored to its former glory.
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Pegg's of Albeburgh
With four generations of expertise in traditional craft and modern engineering, this family firm always delivers excellence in precision metal work of all kinds.
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Bridgnorth Cliff Railway
Britain's oldest inland cliff railway and England's only inland passenger-carrying funicular is owned by the Tipping family, who live in and around Southwold and Halesworth. Bridgnorth Cliff Railway is the oldest and steepest funicular in the country with one of the finest views in Shropshire, and has been transporting people up and down the sandstone cliff that separates the town since 1892.
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