During the 2017 Gala weekend the project to return our 15″ gauge Krupps locos to operation was announced.
Both Mannertreu and Rosenkavelier were sidelined following boiler problems. To allow for a full assessment of the work required, Mannertreu has been moved from storage and dismantled.
The story of the work has been recorded on a blog here.
This year’s gala saw the return to public operation of both our Terrier tank “Martello” and our quarry Hunslet “Gwynedd”.
This video by Suffolk Steam captures the railway operations on the first day.
Following several months of negotiations between the Bressingham Steam Museum, Norfolk, and the Penrhyn Quarry Railway, North Wales, an agreement has been reached whereby the PQR will assist with the restoration of the locomotive Gwynedd in the hope of returning the loco to working order. Continue reading
As everyone who works at the museum must know by now, the nursery business operating under the name of Blooms ceased trading in 2011. And since then the site has become fairly derelict, especially the deteriorating plastic poly-tunnels. Everyone has also probably had experience of, or heard of, adverse comments made by visitors travelling on the trains about the state of the site, even though of course it has been beyond our control. Continue reading
Bressingham Steam Museum, which already contains railways of four different gauges, has recently added to its range with a dual gauge miniature circuit.
It is a joint venture between Bressingham Steam Museum and the volunteers’ society – Bressingham Steam Society (BSS). Continue reading
Robbie the roller is a Kingsway heated patent roller made by Robey’s of Lincolnshire (patent no 237129/1924). It is a static exhibit at Bressingham.
In November 2015 two volunteers John Rivers and Alan Spearman were asked if they would refurbish the roller and put a new roof on to replace the old one, which had rotted over the years. Continue reading
Bressingham has recently added to its range of railways with a dual gauge miniature circuit.
It is a joint venture between Bressingham Steam Museum and Bressingham Steam Society.
The circuit is of dual 5” and 7.25” gauge and is about 200 metres in length in an oval formation. It is located behind the main locomotive shed and runs around the existing small heritage fairground site. There is one turntable and set of points and trains follow a unidirectional path to the single platform. Continue reading
Bressingham’s demonstration signal box 
(originally from Raydon Wood) has also been receiving some TLC from our volunteers. The interior has been tidied up and a new stove installed. There is now a very good exhibition inside on the principles of train signalling, featuring some authentic block instruments and a working lever frame (not connected) which visitors can pull. The exterior has had the planking on the walls and verandah renewed, repaired and repainted into a smart brown and cream livery.
A wartime German built type 52 ‘Kreigslok’ locomotive (named at Bressingham ‘Peer Gynt’) has been on static display for many years. 
In recent times however it had become decidedly weather worn in appearance. A small team of Bressingham volunteers undertook to repaint the locomotive in black livery, using Zinsser paint provided by Tor Coatings. The paint proved extremely effective, requiring in places only one application and this over corroded metal work.This locomotive is now cosmetically restored and on permanent display in one of our sheds. The cab is open to visitor access, with lighting and interpretation of the controls, so visitors can sit in the crew seats and imagine themselves driving this huge machine.
This vertical boiler provides steam for our working stationary engines. It dates from the 1950’s. The tubes 
had become life expired rendering it unusable for some time. This meant we could not have our beam engine operating. A small project led by Bressingham volunteers raised funds from within the Society and undertook retubing and other minor repair work on the boiler. It is now recertified and able to provide power once more for the beam engine and two other stationary engines installed in the adjoining gallery.
