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The Bluebell Railway is an 11 mi (17.7 km) heritage line in West Sussex in England. It is managed by the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society. [ 1 ] It uses steam trains which operate between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead , with intermediate stations at Horsted Keynes and Kingscote .
Purchased by the Bluebell Railway in 1961, and used until withdrawn in the late 1960s in need of major attention. Now returned to service and are unique as a close-coupled set of vintage carriages. The restoration team were the recipient of the Heritage Railways Association's award as overall winner of their 2006/7 carriage competition.
Length 50 feet 1 inch (15.27 m). Retains its original bogies and wood-centred wheels. Used as a mess coach. As built it seated 15 second class and 38 third class passengers. It was bought in 1999 by a member of the Bluebell Railway. After a major overhaul was completed, restoration to traffic on the Bluebell Railway took place in October 2011.
The station in the early days of the Bluebell Railway (1961) Sheffield Park is the southern terminus of the Bluebell Railway and also the headquarters of the line. It is located on the southern bank of the River Ouse (which the line crosses just beyond the platforms) and is also situated on the Greenwich Meridian.
The station is twinned with the Bluebell Railway in England. The ride between Hoorn and Medemblik is often combined by tourists with a trip from Medemblik to Enkhuizen by boat. On the disused side of platform 2 of Huddersfield railway station in northern England, an old carriage is bolted to the ground, and set in its window is a Dutch plaque ...
Camelot returned to service on the Bluebell Railway for the second time on 25 October 2015. [1] On 18 September 2018, Camelot made its first visit away from the Bluebell Railway, being hauled to the West Somerset Railway for their Autumn Steam Gala, being hauled over the mainline by Class 37 diesel 37 668, returning on the 1 October in the same ...
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway A1X Class number 55 Stepney, named after the district of Stepney, is a preserved steam locomotive based at the Bluebell Railway in East and West Sussex, England. Stepney is well known as the first standard gauge engine to be based at the Bluebell Railway, arriving by rail on 17 May 1960. [1]
The Bluebell Railway station at East Grinstead on 27 March 2013, with a Class 377 stabled on the National Rail tracks behind. In the early 2010s, interchanges between the Oxted line and two heritage railways were created. In March 2011, the Spa Valley Railway was extended from Groombridge to the disused island platform at Eridge.