The Trust’s weary team doggedly continued, in quite wet conditions, at Wenhaston with the vegetation clearance work, on Wednesday and Saturday October 7th and 10th. John B led a particularly successful team of bonfire burners (who caught up with the
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
Background: the SRT’s unusual railway fencing style used four-yard timber rails, which can only be found in Galloway. The Chairman’s cunning plan was to include a couple of railway-related stops on his way to collect the timber – he feels
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.
The team suffered a ridiculously-wet Wednesday at the Folly loco shed site, but still managed to get some more work done. Both the heavy concrete bases which used to support the pump platform timbers (and had been rescued from within
The most advanced part of the SRT’s Heritage Train took a big step forward recently, when the SOLD workshop in Lowestoft trial-assembled the main frame onto the underframe we built. The joints in the sapele mahogany are all beautifully made
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
On Saturday August 22nd, and Sunday 23rd, Trust volunteers spent some more time at Halesworth Bird’s Folly (courtesy of the Millennium Green Trustees), enjoying a third day of work on the locomotive shed area. After digging out the inspection and
Thanks to an invitation from the Halesworth Millennium Green Trustees, the Wenhaston volunteers took a day off to tackle another trackbed section – and a very interesting one it turned out to be. Among the SR artefacts on the Green
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