In response to the tremendous success of this year’s Southwold Railway Tours, the Trust will be running Vintage Bus Tours on the following dates in 2104 (all Thursdays or Bank Holidays): March 13th, 27th April 10th, 21st (BH) May 5th
A new set of quality Southwold Railway pens is now available at the shop. These retractable pens come in 5 metallic colour finishes (black, blue, red, purple and green) and feature a ‘Sharpie’ outline loco with commemorative detailing. They are available
Another fine day at Wenhaston (we’ve been very lucky so far this winter – or perhaps I shouldn’t have said that), and our largest team – so far – of 10 volunteers cleared a horrible and intimidating tangle of bramble
The Trust is very pleased to announce that we have secured the long-term loan of Motor Rail diesel locomotive 105H006, by kind agreement of the owner, Peter Nicholson. The only extant example of its class, this very rare three foot
The Wenhaston Environmental Volunteers have continued to clear the original trackbed on Trust land. Brambles, both alive and dead, nettles, and scrub dead saplings (mainly elm) are being removed, initially to provide a path for members’ access and accurate survey. By
A more than usually hard job – two and a half hours of ivy hacking – to unearth a donated 3 yard length of original Southwold Railway rail, which used to hold up a Wenhaston resident’s washing line. John Ridgway
The Rolling Stock Group have been making good progress with Coach 7 (the tram trailer) and the regauged chassis for the SR covered van. The picture shows us painting the coach roof, after the rubbing down and priming had been
The first Wenhaston working day was on Sunday 27th October 2013. There were seven volunteers onsite. We were very lucky with the weather, which was sunny, though wet underfoot. Clearance was started along the top of the old trackbed embankment (for
Our Southwold Railway Bus Tours – aboard the splendid 1950s coach OLIVE – have proved so popular that we have decided to add two more trips in September to cope with the demand! Please ring John Bennett on 01502 724340
Sorry the Blog has been rather static of late, but I’ve just been waiting for news of the planning application, which should have been decided by mid July. Needless to say, it was first put back to mid-August and then