The latest Southwold Railway Walk is from Wenhaston to Blythburgh, on Saturday 24 May 2014, at 10:30 AM. Join us for a guided walk between Wenhaston and Halesworth, along the accessible parts of the Southwold Railway trackbed (there are some
Trust Shop Manager receives an Award
Stewart Green, Southwold Railway Trust shop manager, who is also the Trust’s most prestigious model railway engineer, has just exhibited his famous “Southwold (1922)” layout at Bognor Regis. The layout won the exhibitors’ vote for the best in show –
Stumping, clearance and fence marking
Six Trust volunteers – including for the first time new team members Keith and Linda, enjoyed the ambience of the Wenhaston woodland today – and (I think) enjoyed the clearance as well. Our new volunteers are railway people, which always
A Coach moves, and an Underframe nears completion
On a Saturday and a Wednesday in early May, volunteers managed to tick off a number of outstanding jobs, and make good progress with others. The exterior of coach 7 (apart from the doors) is now close to completion –
The Trust, the Navy, the Army, and a Boundary
Another beautiful spring day – we do seem to be very lucky with this – perhaps to offset our frustration about the planning situation! On Wednesday April 30th, four volunteers – John, Bob, Toby and James – started with the
The Trust continues to improve its Wenhaston land
The Trust’s onsite gang of intrepid volunteers have got well stuck in to the spring work at Wenhaston. Our locally-based contractor Luke Wilby has greatly improved the Blyford Lane entrance, first widening the splay to the road, and then hardening
Visible progress with rolling stock
A number of scheduled workparties, and one or two extra days, have really started to show results with coach 7 and the wagon underframe. Panelling for the coach Southwold end is measured for order, a great deal of finicky work
We take some out – and put some in
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.
Chainage marking and tap roots
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
188 feet of rail for the new Southwold Railway
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