The Southwold Railway Trust can look backward to 2015 as a good, but hard, year of consolidation. Our volunteers spent almost six months on two efforts – firstly, works to enable the boundaries and access on the Wenhaston land, including
The Blyth Valley floods – but not the railway. More volunteers join us.
Over the last week or so, with the spring tides and extra rainfall, the upper Blyth Valley has been flooded in several places. This is a pretty regular occurrence. However, despite the erroneous assertions from the increasingly-desperate opposition, the SRT’s
SR Van 40 (and other) Progress on the SR Heritage Train
The hardwood frame for SR covered van 40, part of the Heritage Train Project, is moving on at the Special Objectives for Local Disabled workshop in Lowestoft. The skilled carpenters at the workshop have been machining the many mortice-and-tenon joints
First Part of the Heritage Train Project Completed
On a beautiful spring day at Wenhaston Station, Bernie, one of the Trust’s longest-serving volunteers – completed the lettering on SR van body No 13. Nestled in the vigorous vegetation, it now looks very much the part. Although the SCDC
Heritage Train: Wagon 41 Moves On
Coastground of Yarmouth – a firm who have always been very supportive of the Trust – pulled out all the stops to gritblast and prime all the parts for SR open wagon 41’s underframe. This was a sizeable job, as
Guest Blog: Mr Awkward’s Workshop Diary – 18th April 2015
Having missed the first workshop session of the month due to being on a family holiday over Easter I was keen to get going this time to get my homework completed! The linkage between the control unit and the torque
The Motor Rail, Wagon 41, and the Wenhaston Project
A large team of twelve enthusiastic volunteers split into two on Wednesday April 8th. Most (because of the good weather) went to Wenhaston, and carried on path clearance and SR fencing – while the rest continued with Motor Rail and
Guest Blog – Mr Awkward’s Workshop Diary – March 2015
My Journey to Southwold this time was slightly delayed by some domestic challenges so I missed the introductory hot drink. Folk had settled down to various tasks – John sorting the switch panel, and Ken working on the diesel engine
The Motor Rail, various hydrocarbons and mineral oils and lots of cleaning up
While your faithful blogster was off gallivanting in Scotland (of which more later), the RSG team, no doubt pleased not to have him breathing over their efforts all the time, succeeded in removing the Motor Rail main fuel tank (for
The Heritage Train Project Gathers Pace
Several aspects of the Heritage Train Project are coming together. The Special Objectives for Local Disabled workshop in Lowestoft have made some very good suggestions about detailed design of the body of Van 40, and we agree – they are experts