Here is the first of the four eleven foot high Engine Shed doors being fitted to the Engine Shed extension recently completed at Steamworks in Blyth Road, Southwold. Once they are all in we can remove the doors you
Not that of Stephenson’s recent triumph with new-fangled steam propulsion- even Suffolk isn’t that behind on the news. No, this is a further update from North Bay Engineering on the progress being made on the ‘Blyth’ replica, which in their
In the spirit of catching up with the news, I thought I’d better fill in on some of the other things that have been going on while I’ve been neglecting the Blogosphere. I’ve been down at Blyth Road again today,
No, I’m still not updating here enough. Mind you, there’s been a lot of work going on, so I’ll claim that in my defence, but passers-by at Steamworks are beginning to ask about updates (through the fence, obviously, due to
High time we put up a blog as several things are happening at Steamworks. These photographs resulting from a site visit yesterday. Above is one of the two sandboxes from Scaldwell lovingly refurbished by Oliver and Robin and awaiting a
I’ve clearly not been doing enough blogging recently, whereas quite a lot has been happening- although these two facts may not be entirely unconnected. More to come in future posts, but one thing I must update is the progress on
It’s gone virol! Here is our illustrious Station Master, Oliver Denham, who has done so much during lockdown to continue the improvements to Steamworks, including some new signs he has had made up for us. I remember Virol from
After a long and exhausting weekend moving heavy lumps of iron about in the hot sun, it makes a pleasant change to be doing less effortful tasks. Today I’ve been wire-brushing and painting one of the three spare Peckett wheelsets,
First off, we’ve had some further photographs of progress on the replica build of ‘Blyth’, one of the three Sharp, Stewart & Co. 2-4-0 tank locomotives bought by the SR in 1879 for the opening of the railway, sent to
Two, initially, on Tuesday. Richard and William Stone, father and son, came down to make a start on inspecting the various bits of equipment at Steamworks for the PAT test. In their usual efficient way, they compiled a thorough list