John Bennett
Blyth Road 14th – 21st July, 2018
7th July, 2018
John Bennett
Blyth Road, July 4th 2018
JB
28th June 2018
I was asked to give a talk on the railway for the Southwold Arts Festival this morning. Photos taken this morning of the Station. We are getting there. Drainage is in now. Yesterday we had the first trial of the
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
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”,
More stock arrives, and a small railway grows: rail needed
Many apologies for the hiatus in this blog (again) – there’s no excuse except for pressure of work. SteamWorks moves on apace (if never quite fast enough for us): visitors have been invited onsite over several weekends now (open days
SteamWorks gets even busier, Scaldwell gets lighter (and changes gender)
Since Peckett Scaldwell’s arrival on July 11th, the new visitor centre at Blyth Road, Southwold – to be called “SteamWorks” – moves on a bit more each day. Many tonnes of topsoil, donated by Duncans Builders and other well-wishers, have
Volunteers continue to dedicate hundreds of man-hours (and woman-hours!) to their chosen Charity
Many apologies for the hiatus in this blog: we have been working very hard, and much of the work is not very photogenic. Also, the usual collapse in Southwold ‘s broadband speed, occasioned by the twenty-fold summer increase in the