Should anyone wish to visit we are open as part of the heritage open weekends in September. There will be two Schoma's running, While we have our...
Safe and sound at its new home. The Schoma's don't look so big now.. [IMG] [IMG]
After seeing Fintown Railway previously using Belgium trams for coaches (One now purchased by Southwold) I looked in to the idea, then found out...
I've been meaning to post a update as to what we've been up to but yes the Lisbon Tram Car No.711 will become our passenger carrying vehicle, it...
Yes sorry when I said we I did mean the Crowle Peatland Railway
We asked Southend Council about what will become of the current locos when the news was announced about the current trains being replaced and the...
If anyone happens to know of any 3’ or 900mm gauge wheelsets could you please let me know.. I was daft enough to take on the job of finding 3’...
Bit slow with the updates I know.. The open weekends was great, we are looking to do the same next year, possibly May - October, with a possible...
The Thomas Buck has been progressing very quickly recently now and isn’t far from being completed. Hopefully 2 of the Schömas will be outside...
More track down.. Just needs screwing in and we can run locos on it. We are looking for a point leaver as well, if anyone knows of any going for a...
Our site is on Crowle Moors which is a peat bog, its a SSSI site in fact, we've only got 1 peat tub wagon, and to my knowledge the only surviving...
Schömas 5130 & 5129 was put on to some rails today, 5129 currently is a non runner so it was up to 5220 “The Thomas Buck to tow both locos on to...
Yep all 3 locos and 3 tandems! And 5/6/2019.. some more photos from the day. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Another one! 5130 has joined the fleet! Currently a non runner.. [IMG] [IMG]
Safe to say we’ve been busy! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Both Schomas have started to receive some undercoat! We have also been kindly donated what I believe to be the last surviving peat tub wagon! It...
After some further adjustments to the engine we ran the engine on 5220 "The Thomas Buck" in for a good hour today. As you can see we have made a...
That is good idea, only thing we would need is a crane as lifting them sections by hand will be near impossible. We plan to use the Slave units on...
All of our locomotives worked on the moors, we never thought we’d have two big Schöma locos when we first started out with the Simplex.. it isn’t...
Crowle & Thorne Moor (where we are based) is a SSSi site, and one of the biggest nature reserves in the country. So we have to respect the area,...
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