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    LEISTON WORKS LINE STEAMS AGAIN IN JUNE!

    May 07, 2019 6 minutes
    PETER TAYLOR/CREATIVE COMMONS

    Julian Warner outlines the story of Suffolk’s Leiston Works Railway revival.

    In a quiet corner of Suffolk the UK’s most easterly heritage railway has been developing slowly, but steadily.

    The Leiston Works Railway Charitable Trust has been formed with the objective of reinstating the former Richard Garrett & Sons of Leiston works line.

    The trust now owns most of the original trackbed, has purchased the entire track and ballast required for the project and has an ever-growing selection of rolling stock and volunteers.

    Now it will unveil the first fruits of its restoration labours to the general public at a grand opening over the weekend of June 1-2.

    The guest locomotive for the event will be Barclay 0-4-0ST No. 2157 , built in 1943 as an oil burner for the Ministry of Supply for use at ordnance factories, but later converted to a coal burner for the NCB, from where it retired in 1972. It is being

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