Bluebell Railway General Discussion

Richard, Is there a case for resurrecting SOBT 4035, currently only an underframe? SOBTs 4008, 4036 and 4035 have arrived at the Bluebell over the years and stripped for spares. Indeed, you commented that 4035 had framing of a larger cross section than anticipated. Are the enough bits left around Sheffield Park?
Roger H

 

Roger,
No, we have 4 Bulleid brakes at the Bluebell (in addition to two at Swanage and two at Mid Hants) so even if the bits did survive (which they don't) there'd be no point. 2515 and 2526 also have the larger frame sections, and the two BRCW ones are also solidly built. Quite a lot of the frame sections from 4035 ended up grafted into 5768 when it was overhauled.
4008's body timbers had turned to compost - the roof was being held up by the partitions and the steel sheeting...
Richard

 

Afternoon all, attended the model railway show at the bluebell last weekend. Managed to get a bits of film of the various layouts. Very enjoyable if warm day out



all the best
Matt

 

Tonights update.

 

I understand that there are likely to be cancellations to dining services running this mid-week as well.

80151 will now be the engine for the remaining services this week in place of 34059(?).

 

There has been a further change. 34059 is now rostered for this week. This matches real-time observations from today.

 

Bluebell have announced via their social media channels, an End of Southern Steam Weekend taking place on June 19/20 2027.

 

Is there any update in regard to this and next weekend's rosters and the timetable (for Southern At War) please to those in the know?

 

Sat 11th July:
A: 34059
B: 2999
WR: 80151

Sun 12th July:
A: 34059
B: 2999
WR: 80151

Set A (11/12 July): 5 Green Mk1s
Set B (11/12 July): GNS+Mets+4 Wheels

Sat 18th July (SAW):
A: 34059
B: 73082

Sun 19th July (SAW):
A: 34059
B: 73082

Set A (18/19 July): OBO+5 Green Mk1s
Set B (18/19 July): 7598-1098-25728-1336-3687

With regards to the timetables for Southern at War, there was a delay deciding what timetable to use, which is why the Public Timetable has not been made available yet. I believe the final agreement was for Timetable J on Saturday and Timetable I on Sunday. I’ve typed out the departures from both end of the line - services in italics will only run on the Saturday.

SP: 09:20 (B), 10:30 (A), 11:45 (B), 13:00 (A), 14:15 (B), 15:30 (A), 16:45 (B)

EG: 10:15 (B), 11:30 (A), 12:45 (B), 14:00 (A), 15:15 (B), 16:30 (A), 17:45 (B)

The public timetable should be made available soon

 

Announcing a gala pretty much a year in advance normally means it’s going to be a big one. Looking forward to this

 

Thank you so much

 

Knew this was lying around somewhere

 

For anyone wondering where BT is - I’m waiting for the office to upload it! On this day may become On this yesterday ..,

Tom

 

Are services running over the weekend as per original plans or any there any changes / cancellations?

 

There’s no changes on HOPS

 

Southern At War timetable now live - advertising 32424 and 73082 though Southern At War Timetable 2026

 

Shame there are no platforms on there.

Unfortunately I have no reason to believe those locos are correct. Both the 'railway-wide' and 'official internal' sources suggest 34059 A and 73082 B. This must have been written a while back.

Note that at HK UP train use PLAT2 and Down trains use PLAT3 (except the 1047 plat3).

 

How long do you think that’s been sat in someone’s inbox

 

Not there yet !!!