Motor Rail Locomotive “Mells” Now that our Halesworth working holiday is over for this year (and we thank The Halesworth Millennium Green forthat privilege), we can return to other pressing tasks. First of these is the completion of Peter Nicholson’s
The Trackbed Trust volunteers have had a good time at Bird’s Folly, Halesworth. Working with the Millennium Green (HMG), we continued the industrial archaeology that we began in 2015 – and have also started the reconstruction of historic artefacts. The
This month Trust volunteers are spending time at the Halesworth Millennium Green, working with the Green further to improve the presentation of the Southwold railway artefacts on the trackbed at Bird’s Folly. At the locomotive shed site, after strimming the
On Saturday May 7th, Trust volunteers helped the Wenhaston Community Café celebrate its first anniversary – there was birthday cake, and general jollity. We are pleased to have been able to contribute to the success of this venture. Over the
Today, after the now-obligatory coffee at the Community Café (in which we were almost the only customers), we made the usual split into workshop and trackbed. The former team completed the locomotive carrying device for the Blyth Valley Light Railway,
The Southwold Railway Trust would like very much to thank all the local organisations who participated in our first Pop-Up Shop at iChameleon in the Thoroughfare, between April 7th and 13th. Our thanks also to Just Nice Things for the
As we are not allowed (yet!) to rebuild the railway, we have been getting in a bit of practice. Or so it would seem. In fact, the large amount of activity this week is more mundane – the SRT needs
On Wednesday March 23rd, soon after hearing the news that the Inspector had turned down our Appeal at Wenhaston, Trust volunteers showed their support by turning out in large numbers: fourteen volunteers (and on a weekday!) is one of our
On Monday, our Chairman went on another odyssey in Barford’s Merc. Sprinter – this time to Swanscombe in Kent – to collect eleven 15-foot lengths of 35lb rail, and fittings. Getting the large vehicle into the drive, past cars parked
On Wednesday February 10th, the Rolling Stock Group manhandled, with some difficulty, the main sub-frame of the underframe of Open Wagon 41 into place over the rails. Using the convenient sleepers (SR 6” x 3” x 72” are useful for