Bressingham Rail Museum

Bressingham Rail Museum and Garden

A railway enthusiast's garden. Alan Bloom set up a garden centre and with the spare money he made he rescued some traction engines. His collection grew and he fixed them up, now he has a full size track and several Great Western engines that were so beautiful that they were perfect as if the queen had ridden in them. In fact she had actually ridden in the carriages. There were several royal coaches. They had a bath, sitting room and beds with lots of decoration. He also had 3 guages of railway through the garden.

They had a merry go round or the “Gallopers”. There was a steam engine attached but unfortunately the steam engine was not going. George rode a three-seated chicken, Max was on an ostridge. We were given 5 pound to buy an icecream. We played on an old stem roller, we filled the fire box with stones but were told off by dad. We had to pick out the rocks and I also found a spanner I there that someone else had put in.

The garden railway went in a large loop. There were teddy bears hanging from trees and tied to water tanks and branches. They are for the young people but to us they looked grubby from the soot and it seemed a bit like teddy bear torture!

They had a room full of about six cabinets, all of them were filled to the brim with Mamod and Wilesco traction and other steam vehicles pus a few Dinky toys. I dreamed that they were for sale. But of course they weren’t.

They had a full sized steam truck and lots of traction engines.

Mum liked the grarden as there were a few New Zealand plants. There was something strange, soap on bits of wire. It turns out that it was to stop the deer eating the tastiest plants. The deer

came in every morning an night. Mum thought it might be for the snails. The deer put their noses down to gobble tasty plants and pooh, they get soap instead and get put off. Run away!