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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.

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Building The Rolling Stock

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. 
Building The Rolling Stock

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

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.
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