The lighting of Kilmersdon’s fire was a great moment!
Kilmersdon, our 1929-built Peckett, was moved outside at Ropley on Thursday 28 July and the fire was lit, steam being produced as the sun set. On the Friday, the loco was on test moving around…
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Our Peckett ‘Kilmersdon’ is almost ready to return to service
Kilmersdon, our 0-4-0ST engine, is now virtually complete following a recent hydraulic boiler test at Ropley on the Watercress Line. The boiler also had an ‘out of the frame’ steam test which it passed during…
Progress on ‘Kilmersdon’ with the frames now back on the wheels
The overhaul on the Trust’s Peckett ‘Kilmersdon’ is continuing at Ropley. The first photo – by Mark Drinkwater, Works Foreman – shows the frames with the newly-retyred wheels underneath. The other photos, by Roger Hardingham,…
‘Steam on the Levels’ on 14/15 May to feature S&DRT-owned Ashcott railtruck
The ‘Steam on the Levels‘ event on 14/15 May at the Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum will see the railtruck in operation at its new home, on loan from the S&DRT. The 2′-gauge peat-carrying railway on…
53808 at the Watercress Line Spring Steam Gala, Friday 29 April ’22
The Trust S&D 7F No. 53808 was in action on the Friday on both passenger and demonstration freight services. [Photos by Julian Clark.]
Watercress Line’s latest news video looks around the new museum and interviews our chairman
The Watercress Line has released its latest news video ‘Keeping You In The Loop’. This edition features a look around the new and developing joint museum at Alresford and features an extensive interview with our…
Video of 53808’s Special Train on Sunday 6 March
Our S&D 7F No. 53808 hauled a Special Train on Sunday 6 March 2022, on the Watercress Line. 56 years earlier – on Sunday 6 March 1966 – the very last trains had run on…
Special Train with 53808 on Sunday 6 March
The date is a poignant one in the history of the S&D as, in 1966, Sunday 6 March was the very last day that trains ran on the S&D. Here are some photos from Bob…
53808 in action on a Watercress Line goods charter
After a good deal of works attention, our S&D 7F No. 53808 was in action on Saturday 5 March with a charter goods service on the Watercress Line. Here’s a selection of photos by Julian…
New short lease agreed for Washford yard
On the evening of Thursday 20 January, solicitors acting for respectively, the West Somerset Railway plc and the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust Ltd, concluded negotiations which had been in progress for well over a…