John Bennett 17th February, 2020
Mid February, 2020
Tracklaying continued…..
John Bennett 20th January, 2020
18th/19th January 2020 – Tracklaying
A real milestone weekend for the Trust. With a little help from our friends – two dozen army reservists from STRE 507 – a lot (70m) of three foot gauge track, with two sets of points, has been installed over
The points arrive. 4th June 2019
What looks like a pile of rusty old steel is actually four very useful sets of points being delivered to Steamworks in Southwold, at the crack of dawn this morning. That’s Southwold Stationmaster Ian Overton above with the crane driver,
Wed 13th February, 2019
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
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