Bluebell Railway
Preservation Society
Twinned with the Museumstoomtram Hoorn-Medemblik
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Victorian Picnic
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Family Fun Weekends
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Bluebell Newsreel
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Victorian Picnic Evenings
Fri 4 & Sun 6 July
Fri 5 & Sat 6 September
A special evening steam train, with exclusive compartments
of your own in our superbly restored Victorian carriages.
Complete with a hamper of food and wine, and an evening Music Hall show.
Book now - tickets going fast!
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A traditional English Summer Fair
Sat 21 & Sun 22 June 2008
Sat 28 & Sun 29 June 2008
Come and join us at the Bluebell Railway for a traditional English Summer Fair
with activities taking place at all stations, including Clowns, Punch and Judy shows,
Face Painting, The Squire and his Stocks, Fancy Dress Competitions and a Miniature Railway.
Save £s
Tickets are available now and
if booked before 31st May are HALF PRICE!
Book Now
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The Bluebell Newsreel Webvision service, a wonderful way for you to contribute financially to the Bluebell and enjoy monthly programmes all about the Railway.
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Our 100% steam-hauled passenger trains run daily until 16 November.
See the Timetable for full details.
In addition, our steam hauled Golden Arrow Pullman
Dining Train runs most Saturday evenings and
Sunday Lunchtimes, as well as some other days.
For Children up to 8 we have the Stepney Club. The 9F Club allows older children to get more involved behind the scenes at the railway.
Next Special Events:
- Sun 15 June: Fathers' Day Ploughman's Lunch -
A real treat for dads, a ploughman's lunch and a
bottle of beer on board a special lunch time train. For more information or to book please contact our customer services team: Tel: 01825 720800 or e-mail
- Sun 15 June: Songs of Praise -
Special evening train at 5.45pm from Horsted Keynes
for a summer evening Songs of Praise service
- Sat 21 - Sun 22 and Sat 28 - Sun 29 June: Bluebell Family Fun
Weekends - A great family day out with clowns, Magic
and Punch & Judy shows together with a miniature
railway, face painting and much more. Half Price ticket offer
- Full special event list for 2008
What's new on this web site? -
Why not become a BRPS Member?
Your ideal Film/TV location? -
A great day out for all the family.
Two different Bluebell Railway Screensavers are now available for downloading to your
PC.
Latest News and Photos -
Photos on other web sites
Welcome to the Bluebell Railway's Home Page
The volunteer-run Bluebell Line was the UK's first preserved standard gauge
passenger railway, re-opening part of the Lewes to East Grinstead line of
the old London
Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1960. Since then it has developed
into one of the largest tourist attractions in Sussex, yet it still remains
true to
its objectives of the preservation for posterity of a country branch line,
its steam locomotives, coaches and goods stock, signalling systems,
stations and operating practices.
On this web site you can find Visitor
Information, and details of the
Timetable for the UK's only all-steam railway. In
addition to scheduled passenger trains, there is also the Golden
Arrow Pullman Train on which you can experience the ultimate "meal
out", our "Day Out with
Thomas" events in June/July,
and in the run up to Christmas each year, the very popular
Santa Specials where the children receive presents from Father
Christmas, and a
full programme of other Special Events. The
web site contains much more that just this, though.
The unusual combination of a GWR "Dukedog" and an SR "West Country" depart northwards from Horsted Keynes station at the 2005 "Giants of Steam" gala.
(Photo: Andrew Strongitharm)
To view larger versions of most of the pictures on this site,
just click on them.
Why not take a tour of this web site: 
Steam Loco Driving Courses
Details of Clive Groome's popular Footplate Days
and Ways Driving and Firing Courses.
Also available on these web pages:
- Information on how to get to the
Railway;
- Full details of catering
arrangements, both on the trains and at the stations;
Information for disabled visitors;
- You can order items from our shop by
mail order;
- Contact information, phone numbers
and addresses;
- Details of the benefits of membership, and opportunities to join in the running of the railway as a volunteer;
- For younger members there is The Stepney
Club and the 9F Club.
- All the latest news from the
Bluebell.
- Information about our historic collections of Locomotives and Carriages
and Wagons, with photos of most items of stock;
- Comprehensive details of the Signalling and
Signal Boxes;
- The Fund-raising Football
Competition;
- Pages detailing the History of the
Bluebell Line.
- Pages describing the role of the Bluebell Railway in Carlton's TV film of "The Railway
Children", and the rolling stock used in the film.
- The Bluebell Railway Trust
(Registered Charity No.292497).
- Other pages, with information about
the stations, extensions to the current
line,
accommodation locally, and other general
background material;
- Links to related pages, plus a full
Index and Search Engine for these
Bluebell pages.
The railway is operated by "Bluebell Railway plc", which is majority owned
by the volunteer membership through the Bluebell Railway Preservation
Society,
and this membership also provides the dedicated volunteer labour which
enables the line to continue running. Any financial surplus made from
running
the trains is ploughed straight back into preservation work. The only
"dividend" members receive is the immense satisfaction of seeing "their"
railway provide a day's entertainment for hundreds of thousands of visitors
each year.
Disclaimer: Whilst every care has been
taken to ensure the accuracy of these pages, the Bluebell Railway cannot be
held
responsible for any errors or omissions. In addition any information
or advice given on these pages is provided in good faith, but should
not be relied upon for safety-critical applications. Bluebell
Railway reserves the
right to vary any of the provisions of this web site without prior notice. This website does not form part of any contract between the Railway and current or prospective visitors or customers. Those requiring information on specific matters should seek written confirmation from the Railway.
Please email the web site editor,
Richard Salmon, with any comments or suggestions about format or content.
External links are provided in good faith, but the Bluebell Railway cannot be held responsible for the content to be found on other web sites.
Out of principle I do not normally use restrictive features such as
frames, tables, Java, or coloured text, since these go against the
original and laudable
concept of html as a user-formatted document language. This also
makes for far faster down-loads. Pages can also be viewed and
navigated acceptably
with images turned off, although the colour-coded timetable is useful! One little bit of
Javascript is included in this page to escape from being locked into
someone else's frame, but if your browser doesn't support this, it
should not be affected, and frames provide a very simple mechanism
for the 360 degree view of the Golden Arrow
carriages' interiors.
Credits:
Some photographs are by the editor and the others are by Mike Esau, Ian
Wright, Lewis Nodes, Jon
Horrocks, Peter Richards, Hiroshi
Naito, Mike Nichols, Michael Taylor, Jeremy Ovenden, Jon Bowers, the late Tony Dunkley, Robin Frankham, Nigel Kendall,
the late Harold Roy Pettit, Peter Edwards, James Young, Jonathan Hall, Graeme Pettit,
Martin Oakley, Barry Coward, Nigel
Longdon, Jeff Machin, Tony Pearce, Ian Bowskill, Chris Majer, Adrian
Lee, Anthony Goff, Tony Frost, Dave Bowles, David Harp, David
Chappell, Les Anstey, Chris Gardner, Andrew Strongitharm, Paul Pettitt, Chris Dadson, Dave Clarke, Nick Beck, Simon Robinson, Owen Chapman, Chris Nevard, Dave Chambers, Martin Creese, Dave Stickland, Clive Emsley, Dave Smith, Fred Bailey, Robert Bird, Roger Stronell, Derek Hayward, Chris Ward, Tom Waghorn, John Sands, Benjamin Boggis and Paul Sharpe with permission.
All the decent artwork (i.e. that not done by the webmaster!) is by
Matthew Cousins GRA, to whom
many thanks.
Thanks are also due to Lewis Nodes, Tim Baker, Tony
Hillman,
Peter
Richards, Martin Nichols, Malcolm Roe, John and Robin Elliott, Peter
Churchman,
Graham Townsend, Mike Watts, Mark Smith, Roger Williams, Martin Lock, Michael Taylor, David
Rider, Julian Best,
Steve Gostelow, Geoffrey Snow, Jim Turtle, Roy Watts, Nigel Longdon, Kate
Saker, Paul Sturm, Katsumi
Suzuki, Hiroshi Naito,
Geoff Harris, Martijn Huibers, Mark Armstrong, Peter Forrestier Smith, Jon
Bowers, Martin Skrzetuszewski, Nick Beck, Fred Bailey, Terry Cole, Robert Bird, Jon Elphick, Jan Kozminski, Caroline Collins and
many other Bluebell members.
Like so much on the Bluebell Railway, this web site is provided at minimal
cost to the Railway thanks to voluntary effort.
The search engine is advertising supported, provided by FreeFind.
Most Frequent Queries:
To search for a phrase, enclose it in quotes; e.g. "New Year"
© Copyright of all items is retained. Material on this web
site may not be reproduced (or further distributed beyond normal web
access) in
any form without the express permission of the Bluebell Railway or other
copyright owners as appropriate.
We are very pleased to have become only the ninth recipient of a
Silver "Smokin' Website Award" from smokin.kvrr.net.
The Bluebell Railway Web Site has been awarded a
TrainNet
Web Gem Award
This web site was one of the very first of
Link Rail UK's Recommended
sites of the Month
in June 1999.
This Web Site is a member of the Travelring.
This Travelring site is owned by: The Bluebell
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