With apologies for the delay since the last post, here is an update on what has been happening throughout the last couple of months here at Southwold. Replica SR wagon 41 has now gained some sides! Work is continuing adding
Recently, the Trust wanted to move our on-loan (from owner Peter Nicholson) H-Class Motor Rail loco from one shed road at Southwold onto the other, where there’s a lot more room to work on it. Main problem – we have
Many apologies for the hiatus in this blog (again) – there’s no excuse except for pressure of work. SteamWorks moves on apace (if never quite fast enough for us): visitors have been invited onsite over several weekends now (open days
Outside work, somewhat interrupted by rain, has concentrated on the decorative station fencing at Blyford Lane, Wenhaston. Led most ably by John B, the volunteers have erected almost all the Midland Railway style double-diagonal timber fencing, using treated timber from
We are used to dry and warm weather here – it’s one of Suffolk’s advantages (to balance out its lack of mountains). The sun continues to smile on our workteams, mostly – perhaps someone does like us after all. Decorative
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
With the good weather, it has been particularly enjoyable to be working for the Trust over the past few weeks (or so we tell the volunteers!). There have been a lot of landmarks. The hard, long and tiring job of
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,
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