A working Southwold Railway pocket watch just acquired. It is inscribed on the back “J.SMYTHE SOUTHWOLD RY”. That name does not appear in the list of station masters in the new book by Rob Shortland-Ball so I wonder if anyone
Early April 2019
18th September, 2018
My picture is 98 year old Mrs Mary Middlebrook in a beach hut at Southwold last week. Mary travelled on the Southwold Railway in the 1920s when her family used to come on holiday, nearly every year, to Southwold, travelling
Trust re-launches Wenhaston Archive
oday, on Friday May 13th (luckily, we are not triskaidekaphobic, having quite enough bad luck to cope with from public bodies on every day), the Southwold Railway Trust re-launches the Wenhaston Archive website with original provider Blythweb, and will host
Phase I work at Halesworth Loco Shed (almost) Completed
The team suffered a ridiculously-wet Wednesday at the Folly loco shed site, but still managed to get some more work done. Both the heavy concrete bases which used to support the pump platform timbers (and had been rescued from within
Early Twentieth-Century SR – some Practical Transport Archaeology
On Saturday August 22nd, and Sunday 23rd, Trust volunteers spent some more time at Halesworth Bird’s Folly (courtesy of the Millennium Green Trustees), enjoying a third day of work on the locomotive shed area. After digging out the inspection and
A Summer Saturday at Bird’s Folly
Thanks to an invitation from the Halesworth Millennium Green Trustees, the Wenhaston volunteers took a day off to tackle another trackbed section – and a very interesting one it turned out to be. Among the SR artefacts on the Green
Van 40’s underframe nears completion, and Coach 7 shines
By the end of the second May Bank Holiday weekend, the Trust’s rolling stock was visibly moving on. Coach 7’s body is complete outside (except for some more work on some of the doors), and is resplendent in maroon, cream
Historical
A more than usually hard job – two and a half hours of ivy hacking – to unearth a donated 3 yard length of original Southwold Railway rail, which used to hold up a Wenhaston resident’s washing line. John Ridgway
“CHANGE HERE FOR SOUTWHOLD”
Our Publicity Officer – Rev. Simon Pitcher – took this photo at the Winchcombe Railway Museum about 8 years ago whilst on summer holiday. This is not the GWR that runs through Winchcombe, but a little independent museum near the town centre.
Box of the Southwold Railway
Halesworth resident Jan Martin came up with ‘The Box of the SOUTHWOLD RAILWAY’ as part of her training at art college in 1980, following the interest generated by the centenary of the line the previous year. Jan designed this Memory Box as