Seb30 went to the GBRF diesel gala on the Bluebell this weekend Very nice selection of locos plus the Bluebells own 09 doing brakevan/observation coach trips. The weather to be frank was appalling but plenty of people about despite the April showers. Here are the photos 73 & 66 at East Grinstead …
What an interesting day it was today! After an unplanned errand left me in Sussex late this morning, I was left at a lose end. Now for most people they would head back home, a mere 30 minutes away but instead I carried on in the other direction into the depths of Sussex countryside. A…
Rather remarkably, somehow I managed to skip this this beautiful locomotive when reporting about my visit to the Bluebell Line (click here to read more.) This was probably because I only saw it briefly as it pulled away with the line’s Wealden Rambler. It had been many years since I had seen this locomotive in…
No visit to the Bluebell Railway is complete without a peak inside the engine shed, which is home to the largest collection of locomotives of (UK) Southern origin. The Bluebell Line has another remarkable claim to fame to add to this – it has the largest collection of BR Standard Classes. Indeed, this collection is…
This beautifully finished locomotive is no stranger to this blog! All being well, the links to blog posts featuring this locomotive will appear automatically at the bottom of this post. 592 was built by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) in 1902 at Longhedge Works to a design by Chief Mechanical Engineer Harry Wainwright. …
Saturday 23rd March 2013 will see the re-opening of the rail link between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead.
Tonight’s Blog Post is a slideshow of pictures
In 2009, I witnessed the spectacle all steam enthusiasts love to see – a locomotive creating a massive cloud of steam that it disappeared in! Mistakenly I assumed that this was blowing steam out of every valve but I’ve been since corrected that the cause is likely to be caused by water coming out of…
Following yesterdays review of Bachmann’s 00 scale model of Harry Wanwright’s South Eastern and Chatham Railway’s C class, comes a set of previously unpublished set of photographs of the sole survivor
Following the recent reviews of Hornby’s 0-4-0 side-tank locomotives, today’s blog post look’s at two real 0-4-0 tank engines on
Loco Yard 