Bluebell Railway | Giants of Steam | 16th-18th October 2026

Looks like I'll have to plan on attending on multiple days! Personally I think this is a great line-up of visitors, look forward to the timetable.

 

Generally Saturday and Sunday both have lots of varying action occuring. Last year there was a lineup of engines on Saturday. There were also lots of double headers on Sunday. I would recommend anyone who wants to experience all the action attends on both Saturday and Sunday. The timetable writer is clever and won't usually put the same combinations of locos double heading on multiple days. It's a deliberate trick to get people to attend multiple days, but it works on me!

The timetable for this event is not imminent, although I understand progress is being made. Keep your eyes peeled - maybe once the diesel gala is sorted - the timetable for that still needs releasing before Giants can be the focus of attention!