Good sunny workday yesterday and various activities across the site at Blyth Road. Some track has been put down by the platform but not yet fixed. But you get the idea. The mahogany worktop in the station looks great thanks
Wed 13th February, 2019
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
SteamWorks starts to take shape
Events are moving fast at our Southwold site. Clarkes of Walsham https://www.clarkesofwalsham.co.uk/ delivered timber, membrane, and insulation for the walls and floor of the workshop and main shed: having enjoyed such a long spell of settled weather, we were caught
The Co-operative connection, another successful Pop-Up Shop, the first railway van onsite
The Trust is pleased and thankful that the Co-operative Group has chosen our charity as one of the local beneficiaries for their community funding. https://causes.coop.co.uk/ We have a display in Southwold Co-op, where the Chairman spent a recent afternoon talking
Progress at Blyth Road: Shop in Halesworth and Southwold
Both membership numbers, and the size of volunteer teams, are rising quite fast now. On the SteamWorks site in Southwold, the new building (a bit over one third of the whole visitor centre) is well on the way to completion,
SteamWorks grows
At the SteamWorks site in Southwold, the central part of the new visitor centre is almost complete, with just the roof cladding to complete, and services to put on. Trust volunteers laid a third panel of permanent track, plus a
Summer Progress – at three places along the trackbed
High summer in the Blyth Valley saw continuing large teams working for the Trust – plus some new volunteers. The weather has been very kind indeed, if a little too hot and muggy. At Blyford Lane, on the Wenhaston station
Yet more foliage, rain and mud – and progress in many areas
The Southwold Railway Trust is blessed with a very dedicated team of hard-working volunteers – and that has never been more obvious than during the against-the-clock landscaping work in September. Two days each week (it takes all the days in
Straightening Bent Things and Protecting Assets
A five-man work party at Wenhaston accomplished much, despite some odd weather – and a lot of mud. Stewart and Chris – both now dab hands at the Jim Crow (for explanation see an earlier blog), Stewart being a veteran