Bluebell Railway General Discussion

The latest issue of the Bluebell Times is now ready to download.

In this issue:

• Camelot stars at the Severn Valley - and in our Horsted Keynes flower beds!
• 10 Bluebell staff obtain Emergency First Aid qualification
• Bluebell work with Network Rail to monitor unstable earthworks
• Own a piece of Bluebell History as the Sheffield Park Station clock is replaced.
• More donations from the Carriage Shop to the Southern Railway Coach Group and the Bluebell Railway Goods Division
• 2026 Gala Dates revealed

You can read it here: https://www.bluebell-railway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/issue-74.pdf

Tom

 

Identity crisis I see at HK this weekend.

 

I'm not sure that's anything new, the real identity crisis appears to be at the south end of platforms 1/2, where the canopy columns seem to be turning maroon, along with a lot of filming gear piling up.

 

Downton?

 

Thought they were not making any more Downton TV/Films. Intrigued.

 

As far as I can recall, the "Downton" nameboard has been at the end of platforms 1/2 since the beginning of time, well, certainly well before the rebuilding began. I always presumed this was because the railway saw it as a kind of international flag-waver.

 

Apparently it is magnetic, so it comes and goes - I think there was a reason for having it today.

Tom

 

How about a Downton Abbey themed day?

Hugh Bonneville lives nearby and you can have Bates being found in the vicinity of suspicious deaths, a sort of 'Who Didnt Do It'