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
The Trackbed Trust volunteers have had a good time at Bird’s Folly, Halesworth. Working with the Millennium Green (HMG), we continued the industrial archaeology that we began in 2015 – and have also started the reconstruction of historic artefacts. The
This month Trust volunteers are spending time at the Halesworth Millennium Green, working with the Green further to improve the presentation of the Southwold railway artefacts on the trackbed at Bird’s Folly. At the locomotive shed site, after strimming the
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
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
On Saturday May 7th, Trust volunteers helped the Wenhaston Community Café celebrate its first anniversary – there was birthday cake, and general jollity. We are pleased to have been able to contribute to the success of this venture. Over the
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