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Victorian Picnic

Family Fun Weekends

Bluebell Newsreel

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!

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

Bluebell Newsreel Video service
The Bluebell Newsreel Webvision service, a wonderful way for you to contribute financially to the Bluebell and enjoy monthly programmes all about the Railway.

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.


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Two different Bluebell Railway Screensavers are now available for downloading to your PC.

Latest News and Photos     -     Photos on other web sites

The Bluebell Railway


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.


Busy scene at Horsted Keynes - Andrew Strongitharm

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: Follow the Tour

Steam Loco Driving Courses
Details of Clive Groome's popular Footplate Days and Ways Driving and Firing Courses.


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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.

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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.

Any Browser 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.

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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.

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We are very pleased to have become only the ninth recipient of a Silver "Smokin' Website Award" from smokin.kvrr.net.


TrainNet Web Gem Award Link Rail UK Recommended 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.

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