The Wenhaston team get stuck in to yet more stumps – which seem to stretch on for ever. There’s a large concentration about half way through the woodland strip, however, which will be very hard indeed to do by hand.
Wednesday March 12th saw a Wenhaston team onsite in the now-expected, but still unseasonal, sunshine. The main job on hand was to mark each chain end along the trackbed, so that the survey can have points for measurement – and
On the morning of Saturday 15th March, volunteers – with the essential help of Wenhaston member Roger Desborough and his tractor and trailer – collected around 188 feet of rail from two locations. Thanks to the generosity of the Trustees
On Wednesday March 5th, Rolling Stock Group volunteers cleared the inner and outer parts of the workshop, tidying away building materials, timber and assorted bits and pieces. All our (increasingly large numbers of) tools are now logically distributed on the
On Saturday March 1st, the SR volunteers ticked off a job which has been worked on, on and off, for some months. The steel frame of the coach sides having previously been treated for rust and painted, the new treated
Serious efforts at Wenhaston in the last week before the nesting season stops tree work have resulted in the Wenhaston Environmental Volunteers achieving what we set out to do – when we started onsite in October 2013. With the exception
On Saturday 22nd February, three volunteers worked in glorious weather on the trackbed and the station site. John, Southwold’s Town Crier, carried on with raking the twigs and general rubbish off the trackbed. Toby and James tackled the (rather daunting)
After a cancellation yesterday, because of very strong winds, six Trust volunteers had a very good day in the sunshine, on the Wenhaston site on Sunday Feb. 16th. We managed to complete most of the remaining dead tree work (where
While the Trust awaits the long-expected decision of Suffolk Coastal District Council on our Wenhaston Station planning application (which has now been running for almost ten months), we have put in a very small additional application for some basic facilities
On Wednesday February 5th, after a great deal of preparation, we lifted Coach 7 off its blocks, and lowered it onto a panel of Southwold Railway rails. That sounds quite simple, doesn’t it? But it wasn’t, very. Bernie brought his