News from MSLR

In common with other heritage railways and museums around the country, the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway has had to cancel all immediate opening days and postpone events scheduled for Spring and early Summer, due to the Coronavirus outbreak. This is an enormous disappointment to the Middy’s volunteers after such promising start to the year with a…

As readers will know we have regretfully had to postpone the VE Day and War Years pageants due to the current crisis. But we are hopeful that the situation will have improved sufficiently by the summer to enable the VE Day and Middy in the War Years to move to the VJ celebration weekend 15th…

In common with other heritage railways, the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway has taken the decision to cancel all immediate opening days and postpone events scheduled for late Spring and early Summer, due to the current Coronavirus outbreak. We will re-open and reschedule major events as soon as the situation improves. We will be constantly reviewing the…

With regret, the MSLR Board have decided to cancel the first opening event of the 2020 season due to the Coronavirus/Covid-19 outbreak. Other events may have to follow unless the situation improves. Excerpt from MSLR Chairman John Stark’s statement. “Obviously the current crisis will affect some of our planned events. Please consult the MSLR website…

This year’s War Years pageant at the Middy will be bigger and better than ever before, not least as it will run for three days to complement the 75th anniversary of VE Day in line with the national bank holiday celebration. As ever the Middy will be staging displays and demonstrations by re-enactors and the…

The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway’s steaming programme will be published shortly and will show the first major open weekend to be Easter with ‘bunny hunt’ as usual, 12th and 13th April, next year followed by a longer Middy in the War Years programme as the Bank Holiday Weekend has been extended to three days to accommodate…