Southwold Railway Out Now.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:55 pm

Oooooh, those are sexy! Drooool...

fadedGlory · Post by **fadedGlory** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:25 pm

The Thomas Moy PO wagons:

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pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:55 pm

Also drools... those are wonderfull Jur! Ive fallen in love with them already...

*has been on the London Pride all evening*......

Thomas Moy was a local merchant how owned a number of wagons on the line:

Thomas Moy was not only a coal merchant but built his own wagons in his Peterborough Works. Two arrived soon after the opening, two more in 1896; a batch of six in 1899; a further four in 1914 and finally 2 second hand vehicles in 1922. Five were owned by MOY and the remainder by the SR.

Branch Line to Southwold, Middleton Press

From a rather happy Pitley

fadedGlory · Post by **fadedGlory** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:35 am

The coach in cream:

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mccormackpj · Post by **mccormackpj** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:50 am

Absolutely stunning .. I'm gob-smacked. The coaches are beautiful and the view of Southwold from the Common most convincing. Is the water-tower included? I can't remember when it was built, but no doubt not when the coaches were in cream!

And when are the extensions to Kessingland and Laxfield due out?

Only joking ..

Patrick

fadedGlory · Post by **fadedGlory** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:31 am

Here is Blyth in black, shunting all of the current goods stock in the Halesworth yard:

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saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 9:51 am

Except the vans of course

Any chance you could dirty down the 6-wheeled opens a bit?

And if you have some documentation on how many wagons were owned that would help activity writers to make up sensible trains.

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:52 pm

And if you have some documentation on how many wagons were owned that would help activity writers to make up sensible trains.

The railway had 23 4 wheeled goods vehicles, two of these were flat wagons and two were covered vans (13 and 14). Most of the goods vehicles were grey, the vans were painted maroon, and the Moy wagons were their own black livery (the Moy wagons were painted red oxide in later years).

16 of the wagons were built on the 6 wheel underframes... 5 of these were owned by Moy, so the SR owned 11 six wheel wagons.

Thus a stock list would look something as follows....

Loco's 1,2,3,4

x2 covered vans
x2 flat bed wagons
x19 4 wheel wagons

x11 six wheel SR wagons
x5 Thomas Moy wagons

x6 6 wheel coaches

The Southwold Rule Book states that no more than 7 wagons may be towed behind a train. Train services ran as follows:

Initially there were four journeys daily, however this was soon increased to five. By 1910 the 5th extra train was only run on saturdays and no trains ran on sundays. In 1914 there were 4 trains on week days with an extra evening train every night in June and Mondays Fridays and Saturdays in May. During WW1 special leave trains ran on Saturdays and Sundays for troops stationed near Blythburgh. During the 20's there were 4 returns made during the normal 12 hour working day with an additional train on saturdays in the summer months. During the later years of the line the timetable allowed for a freight run to Halesworth leaving at 11.15am and returning to Southwold an hour later with a maximum of 14 wagons.

The 1929 timetable saw trains leaving Southwold at: 7.30 9.50 2.24 and 5.23, arriving at Halesworth at 8.11 10.31 3.50 and 6.40. Trains left Halesworth at 8.40 1.00 3.35 and 6.37, arriving at Southwold at 9.21 1.41 4.16 and 7.18....

Hope this is of some use to activity writers?

Pitley

fadedGlory · Post by **fadedGlory** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:54 pm

According to the Middleton Press book 'Branchline to Southwold':

- No's 1 - 8: 4 wheel, rounded ends (high)
- No's 9 - 10: 4 wheel, straight ends (high)
- No's 11 & 12: 4 wheel, straight ends (low)
- No's 13 & 14: the vans
- No's 15 - 23: 4 wheel, rounded ends (low)
- No's 24 - 36: SR 6 wheel, rounded ends
- No's 1507 - 1511: Moy PO 6 wheel, rounded ends

I just realised I numbered one of the Moy wagons 1512

See what I can do about that...

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fadedGlory · Post by **fadedGlory** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:55 pm

Oi! You beat me to it!

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saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:03 pm

Thanks guys, very useful gen.

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:18 pm

Hehehehe by 2 mins..... :p I didnt know which wagons were which though!

Pitley

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:21 pm

This is one beautiful little railway....congratulations to ALL involved...

Looking forwards to the release of those cream coaches....very nice.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:25 pm

Jur, I notice that the lettering on the MOY wagons has no faint grey line across it to denote the planks. If you added in this small change I think it would enhance the model a lot as the letters would really look painted on rather than card cutouts stuck on, if you see what I mean.

fadedGlory · Post by **fadedGlory** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 11:32 pm

saddletank wrote:Jur, I notice that the lettering on the MOY wagons has no faint grey line across it to denote the planks. If you added in this small change I think it would enhance the model a lot as the letters would really look painted on rather than card cutouts stuck on, if you see what I mean.

That's a good point, Martin, I've quickly made the changes before the wagons get approved.

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