North Suffolk steam train museum in expansion bid
A steam train museum in north Suffolk is looking to expand.
Mid Suffolk light Railway, which is located at the former Brockford Station site in Wetheringsett, has applied for planning permission to the district council in order to put up a new locomotive restoration shed.
The shed would comprise an exhibition room housing a large steam engine, with explanations, a viewing screen, where visitors can watch the restoration being carried out, plus showering facilities for volunteers at the museum in Hall Lane who are involved in the often-dirty restoration work.
There is already planning permission for a similar building on the site, but the volunteers were advised to make a new planning application, as the construction that got the go-ahead in that bid was smaller.
The line closed just over 60 years ago, with the last trains running on July 26, 1952.
It is now nearly 23 years since the museum was founded, and over a decade since the first trains ran on the 450 metres of demonstration track, which visitors to the attraction’s occasional Sunday steam galas get to ride along.
The new building would be positioned over an existing bit of railway track.
It would measure about 18 metres in length, and roughly 11 metres in width.
The roof would be 6.6 metres high at the ridge.
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