For our birthday celebrations we will be hosting a mini gala style event over the weekend. We will be showcasing our home fleet with multiple...
This is really a follow-on to the 7027 thread, but I think there is a wider issue. There are extreme views expressed, but one poster is getting...
Event details are now online, along with ticket booking: https://www.bluebell-railway.com/steaming-through-60/ Tom
Our first special event of the year - Road Meets Rail takes place on 17/18 July. Step back in time for a weekend of steam powered demonstrations...
Reading 'The Dukedog Story" (a ca. 1980s-ish publication by the Bluebell Railway) Tom Gomm makes the following assertion: "Despite the...
I'll stick this here in the hope that the photographic community can give some advice. I would like to create an online photo library for images...
Posting this as a new thread, because an interesting point came up in the GCR thread, but it is a point not specifically restricted just there:...
(This was in the latest issue of The Bluebell Times, Issue 8, but since it is my story and I rarely get to write much extended prose these days, I...
At some point in its "austerity" era, the SE&CR replaced the cast brass numbers and number plates carried by its locomotives and tenders with cast...
A blast from the past - what an elegant bit of machinery! [MEDIA] Tom
Time for a dedicated thread for the three day Branch Line Weekend. As already announced, star visitor is Taff Vale Railway Tank Engine No. 85,...
Event details and online booking here (with advance and multi-day discounts): https://www.bluebell-railway.com/whats_on/branch-line-weekend-2/...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-46348917 Once the cutting edge of technology, but now crumbling and forgotten, overtaken by the...
Driving back down the A303 today between Basingstoke and Andover, I overtook two articulated lorries that were carrying, between them, three...
Featuring Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company GWR 813, as well as Stirling O1 No. 65, Wainwright H class No. 263, Wainwright P class No. 323 and...
https://www.bluebell-railway.com/whats_on/diesel-gala-2018/ Class 45 45041 owned by Peak Locomotive Company Ltd Class 46 D182 also owned by Peak...
As a spin-off from the Flying Scotsman thread, I came across these videos that filmed the conditions inside a boiler in operation (via a small...
Quick plug for this event, featuring visiting loco 34092 "City of Wells". Timetable here:...
Visiting engine LNWR Coal Tank, courtesy of the National Trust / Bahamas Locomotive Society / KWVR; plus SE&CR 592, 263, 323, 178; Maunsell Q...
Came across this today, a new source of photos from a photo studio in Derby going back to the mid 19th century. In amongst the portraits shown...
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