2020 updates and improvements

• December
  • Tri-ang Blue Pullman train set
  • The museum shuts down from December 26th to mid-May 2021, as part of the government-mandated COVID response.
• October
  • A rare green Hugar Southern Railways EMU lithographed model train set.
  • Arguably the most desirable Trix TTR model railway set ever produced, the gorgeous 1939 red “US tour” Coronation Scot presentation set.
• September
  • Two new modern-specification computer screens for the Resource Room, for use by staff and volunteers.
  • Updated Community Rail Partnership displays in Brighton Station.
  • The return of the nice paper museum carrier bags, courtesy of Tidmas Townsend.
• August onwards
  • Work resumes on re-sorting the contents of the museum’s archival/storage areas.
• July
  • The museum is kitted out with COVID screens on the counter, stickers on the floor, a one-way system, and protection equipment and new procedures, and reopens on July 28th.
• June
  • The museum is featured on BBC’s Bargain Hunt, Series 56 Lewes 19.
• April-June
  • The decision was made to furlough staff from 1st April.
  • A range of display improvements and changes that had been originally planned for April onwards are put on hold.
• Feb-March
  • Full speed ahead with work on the the new archival storage bays (non-public area)
  • The Museum closed to the public (due to COVID) on 17th March.
• January
  • The blue and silver 1937 nine-car Exley for Bassett-Lowke Coronation Scot streamliner train has been rotated back onto the central 1930s gauge 0 model railway layout.