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About this blog

Welcome to my blog.

Here I shall update you on my wonderful goings on, as I try to faithfully recreate the locos and rolling stock of The Southwold Railway, in 00n3.

The Southwold Railway was a narrow gauge railway between Halesworth and Southwold in the English county of Suffolk. A total 8 miles 63 1⁄2 chains(14.15 km) long, it was 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge.

It opened in 1879 and closed in 1929.

Entries in this blog

Rolling stock update

I've been quite busy making up more of the stock for Southwold. That busy in fact, I have forgotten to update the progress in the blog.  I am aiming to make all the stock the Railway had. Sourcing the coaches is not a problem, thank you to Worsley works. And golden arrow produce the loco kits and van body's in resin, as well as the 6 wheels. ive also got the two 1-plank Wagons and the two 2-plank wagons. The main issue is the 4-plank wagons that were produced by NineLines. I

Coach Balconies

Did a bit of progress on the Coach balconies. These had a very attractive style of safety rail, with a safety chain across the gap. the coaches had manually operated brakes, with a brake handle at one end of each coach.  Three coaches (No.1, No.3, No.5) had brake handles at the Southwold end of the Coach, and the other three (No.2, No.4, No.6) had brake handles at the Halesworth ends. presumably this was so the gaurd was able to put the brakes on two coaches simultaneously, withou

Lewis Cree

Lewis Cree in Coach Balconies

Wenhaston Loco Build.

Current status on 'No.4 Wenhaston'. Adding 3D rivets at the moment and building the Chassis, so not the quickest of work. The Southwold Railway purchased this loco in anticipation for the extra goods traffic due to the opening of the harbour.  Although the harbour trade never took off as expected, 'No.4 Wenhaston' was still used on regular trains on the line, and was one of the last ones in steam. 

Southwold Loco Build

This was the progress I have made on the first loco 'No.1 Southwold'. Albeit not finished. The other locos, 'No.2 Blyth' and 'No.3 Halesworth' were of a 2-4-0 wheel arrangement. 'No.4 Wenhaston' was an 0-6-2 wheel arrangement. The loco kits are white metal and are sourced from Golden Arrow Models. I first built this when I was around 16, but have recently stripped it back to the metal, and rebuilt it. I also went down the route of adding 3D rivet transfers, as I felt it gave the model a

Building the rolling stock

The Railway had a a wide variety of goods wagons.  There where multiple 4 wheeled Dropside open wagons with curved ends, Two 4 wheel goods vans, and an endless supply of 6 wheel cleminson wagons. Ive started building up kits of the 4 wheel open wagons that I have acquired from the nine lines range. The 6 wheel cleminson wagons are resin cast from Golden Arrow, and the 6 wheel coaches are Brass etches that arr from Worsley Works. The wheels are Parkside Dundas 00n3.

A short history of the Railway

The Southwold Railway was a British 3ft Narrow Gauge Railway.  Built in 1879 and closed in 1929. The main line was 8 miles (14.15 km) long, running from Southwold to Halesworth, stopping at three intermediate stations, Walberswick, Blythburgh and Wenhaston. The was a link to Blackshore Quay, between Southwold and Walberswick, which was to be 0.25 miles long. The railway had with three locomotives for the opening, but a total of four by closure, built by Sharp, Stewart Company. They
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