Suburban Electric Railway Association

What do we want for Christmas ?
More members!

You can now become a paid up member of the SERA online for £30 a year and get two copies of this magazine posted direct to your door - and you’ll be supporting our projects.

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Progress being made at Shackerstone on E905, or Spondon No.1 as it is better know. Completion date is likely end of July.

One for the ‘Gladdington’ fans

🎄 Christmas 1934: The London & North Eastern Railway's Christmas tree at #Newcastle Central station.

Introducing 2-EPB unit 6307, kept at Sellindge and a restoration project for our Kent based volunteers. In 2025 the project will ramp up to bring this unique survivor back to looking her best, it will take a few years and several thousand pounds so if you want to help in anyway get in touch.

English Electric advert for the type 3 electric locomotive.

Here’s another old advert relevant to our collection. English Electric built 32 ‘Type 3’ electric locomotives, 31 of them for UK industrial sites and one for South Africa. The first one was out-shopped in 1920 and the final one in 1951. Five are preserved, including our Spondon No.1

Don’t know the date on this but after 1950 as that is when our Ruston 165DE ‘MAZDA’ was built. It was the first diesel-electric loco built by Ruston & Hornsby and was fitted with BTH traction and control gear. Currently under restoration at The Battlefield Railway in Leicestershire.

It is an English Electric type 3B battery/overhead loco built in 1935 for Spondon Power station, fully operational still. Getting the last of its body repairs done and full repaint in 2025.

We are a railway preservation group, all run by volunteers. These are our projects that we will post about on here.

We helped with some of the detail for this model - it looks great doesn’t it!