Wednesday 2nd showed SRT volunteers working both at Wenhaston and at the Southwold workshop. Now the bird nesting season is over, we have started on the tree works necessary to allow our neighbour access to improve his (and our) drainage.
With the help of Sean’s trailer and pick-up (I cannot imagine how we would manage without the “Digger”), the dismantled parts of the Wenhaston station WC were delivered to the station site, and immediately erected. As a result of a
A good team of volunteers tackled various Rolling Stock Group jobs on Wednesday 4th August. The Wenhaston station WC, worked on by Keith, Bob and James, has had its hinges eased, its lock and handles fitted, the trapped bolts for
The Trust held a new event on 11th and 12th July, at Wenhaston Station. On Saturday, all residents of Wenhaston with Mells Parish were invited to come to the station and meet some volunteers and Trustees. The Trust provided free
Trust volunteers (travelling from as far away as Bury St. Edmunds and Bedford – the dedication of our members never ceases to amaze me) had three strongly-contrasting tasks today. The railway-style WC for Wenhaston Station moves on apace, with the
The “Punch and July Booth” (AKA the Wenhaston Station WC) is moving on fast – or, as fast as it can in the heatwave. This John Bennett-designed building (which boats a typical JB touch with the diamond-shaped window in the
Peter Nicholson’s Motor Rail locomotive is beginning to look, again, as it would have done when built in the late 1960s. As we were having the components of Wagon 41 gritblasted by Coastground of Yarmouth, we thought we should also
On a beautiful spring day at Wenhaston Station, Bernie, one of the Trust’s longest-serving volunteers – completed the lettering on SR van body No 13. Nestled in the vigorous vegetation, it now looks very much the part. Although the SCDC
A large team of Trust volunteers – undaunted, alike, by the dubious decisions of some bureaucrats, and general unpleasantness and ignorance from the opposition (elements of which have recently taken to photographing – by “paparazzi” long lens – everything that
For the first time ever, members of the District Council, of the Parish Council, and our neighbours were united at today’s planning meeting in their support for the Southwold Railway Trust’s Charitable Aim – to restore the Southwold Railway. The