Hello,
I was looking through some of my photos from holidays last year and I saw some of my photos of steam locomotive Sirapite from the Leiston Works Railway (see below).
Sirapite comes from the Leiston Long Shop Museum, Leiston, Suffolk. The museum is part of what used to be a larger operation belonging to Richard Garratt & Sons, who mainly produced steam engines (specifically traction engines). Their works included a railway - known as the Leiston Works Railway - which ran from their works to Leiston station (now closed). This line closed in 1968, after being worked by Sirapite for 33 years from 1929 to 1962 and then a battery engine for the last six years (now scrapped).
The line used to cross the road in Leiston by the works, before proceeding down what I assume was entirely its own route (e.g. it didn't cross roads/paths/etc.). In 2019, a small section of the line was reopened by a preservation group. The length of line was either 250 or 360 yards (I can't work out which). I watched a YouTube video from Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels about the opening of the line, as he took his Ruston 48DS engine there to run along the track.
However, I can't find any more news on the subject; when I went to Leiston last year I heard that the group want to re-lay the entire railway from Leiston works, but I don't know where they are going to or where they've got. Does anyone else know? The group's website doesn't have much new news (from a quick look).
Thanks,
-Peter
Links:
en.wikipedia.org
lwr.org.uk
I was looking through some of my photos from holidays last year and I saw some of my photos of steam locomotive Sirapite from the Leiston Works Railway (see below).
Sirapite comes from the Leiston Long Shop Museum, Leiston, Suffolk. The museum is part of what used to be a larger operation belonging to Richard Garratt & Sons, who mainly produced steam engines (specifically traction engines). Their works included a railway - known as the Leiston Works Railway - which ran from their works to Leiston station (now closed). This line closed in 1968, after being worked by Sirapite for 33 years from 1929 to 1962 and then a battery engine for the last six years (now scrapped).
The line used to cross the road in Leiston by the works, before proceeding down what I assume was entirely its own route (e.g. it didn't cross roads/paths/etc.). In 2019, a small section of the line was reopened by a preservation group. The length of line was either 250 or 360 yards (I can't work out which). I watched a YouTube video from Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels about the opening of the line, as he took his Ruston 48DS engine there to run along the track.
However, I can't find any more news on the subject; when I went to Leiston last year I heard that the group want to re-lay the entire railway from Leiston works, but I don't know where they are going to or where they've got. Does anyone else know? The group's website doesn't have much new news (from a quick look).
Thanks,
-Peter
Links:
Leiston Works Railway - Wikipedia
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Sirapite Train
A very rare shunting train housed at the Long Shop Museum in Leiston, Suffolk
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