Buffet Car

At the beginning of September the LGB red and cream starter set coach entred the railways workshops to be converted to a Buffet.

• The red was repainted


• The interior was repainted


• Parts of the chassis was repainted


• A counter was made


• Gold lining was added

Work that still needs to be done is to install the counter and if room install some seats.

Mamod Traction Engine arrives

A Mamod traction engine arrived on the railway in time for the open day. It has been named 'Nellie' and is due to have rubber tires fitted in the near future. The steam tractor steamed for the first time at our open day and the running in of the piston and fly wheel is almost complete, and so will soon move under its own power very soon!

It also has a removable canopy.

Open Day

As usual the open day held on Bank Holiday Monday - August was our biggest of the year with people and locos visiting from all accross East Anglia.

Visiting locos included two live steam locos, a Roundhouse and a Accucraft Edrig- this was the first Accucraft loco to run on the S&NLR, a Class 66, and a noisy Union Pacific Dash 9.

We also had two visiting Mamod traction engines and a mamod steam roller. Our new traction also made its very first steaming.