The lighting of Kilmersdon’s fire was a great moment!
Leave your thoughtsKilmersdon, our 1929-built Peckett, was moved outside at Ropley on Thursday 28 July and the fire was lit, steam being... View Article
The lighting of Kilmersdon’s fire was a great moment!
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Our Peckett ‘Kilmersdon’ is almost ready to return to service
Leave your thoughtsKilmersdon, our 0-4-0ST engine, is now virtually complete following a recent hydraulic boiler test at Ropley on the Watercress Line.... View Article
Re-examining Wells Branch Brake Van No.9 – the last surviving S&D goods vehicle
Leave your thoughtsDuring the late 19th century, Highbridge Works built ‘mail brakes’; specialised goods vans intended primarily for the main line between... View Article
Progress on ‘Kilmersdon’ with the frames now back on the wheels
Leave your thoughtsThe overhaul on the Trust’s Peckett ‘Kilmersdon’ is continuing at Ropley. The first photo – by Mark Drinkwater, Works Foreman... View Article
‘Steam on the Levels’ on 14/15 May to feature S&DRT-owned Ashcott railtruck
Leave your thoughtsThe ‘Steam on the Levels‘ event on 14/15 May at the Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum will see the railtruck in... View Article
53808 at the Watercress Line Spring Steam Gala, Friday 29 April ’22
Leave your thoughtsThe Trust S&D 7F No. 53808 was in action on the Friday on both passenger and demonstration freight services. [Photos... View Article
Our newly-overhauled 1938 Covered Carriage Truck (CCT) shines in the spring sun
Leave your thoughtsDespite the time at Washford drawing gradually to a close, restoration work still continues on the stock that is on... View Article
Watercress Line’s latest news video looks around the new museum and interviews our chairman
Leave your thoughtsThe Watercress Line has released its latest news video ‘Keeping You In The Loop’. This edition features a look around... View Article
Video of 53808’s Special Train on Sunday 6 March
Leave your thoughtsOur S&D 7F No. 53808 hauled a Special Train on Sunday 6 March 2022, on the Watercress Line. 56 years... View Article
Special Train with 53808 on Sunday 6 March
Leave your thoughtsThe date is a poignant one in the history of the S&D as, in 1966, Sunday 6 March was the... View Article