Bluebell Railway General Discussion

Any idea if the Q will be put into SR black at any point? Also how is OP4 doing?

 

Just seen a picture on Facebook of 1054 at Sheffield Park, facing North (from what I could tell anyway...)

 

There was something of a break on OP4 because the Infrastructure team were very heavily involved over the winter with track renewal work - that has to take priority during the brief windows either side of Christmas when no trains are running. However, my understanding is that work on drainage and other works for the site has resumed and I believe the objective is that track will be laid and vehicles undercover before next winter.

Tom

 

Branch Line Weekend timetables are now up
Saturday http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pti/BL1.html
Sunday http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pti/BL2.html

 

Will the Coal Tank be staying on after the event to work some regular trains or is it going straight back to the KWVR?

 

An interesting timetable by the look of it!

 

Definitely is facing north (was in the shed this morning).

I'm not aware of any scheduled passenger workings apart from the gala.

Tom

 

Thanks, I'll aim to be down both days then to get it, in addition to that SECR quadruple header on Sunday evening!

 

There's also a planned arrangement of the four in-traffic SECR engines for photos with hopefully also the O1 present but not in steam, at Sheffield Park on Saturday evening.

Tom

 

That will presumably be at around 18:15, following the arrival of 263 at 17:52?

 

Slightly later I think as 263 has a shunt to do first - probably somewhere after 18.30.

Tom

 

Does anyone know whats happened to the Metropolitan coaches? I haven't seen them for a while.

 

See post 2396.

 

Was good to finally put a face to a name this morning - that of Tom, @Jamessquared on Jon's @jonpbowers charter with the Q!

 

From the Charter, Thanks to Jon, Ian, Tom etc.

 

Further photos from the charter can be found at http://paulsimpson.zenfolio.com/p333131411

 

Thank you

 

Timetable for both days of the Branch Line Gala, with loco and stock allocations and all the shunt notes for those that enjoy watching the shunting:

http://rasalmon.co.uk/bluebell/download/events/2017/Bluebell_Branch_Line_Weekend2017.pdf

Incidentally, in the carriage sets, our normal convention is to list them south --> north.

Tom

 

According to the PTI page, 1054 will work Set A on Saturday 20 May and Sunday 21 May, which includes operation with the GN Directors' Saloon.

http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pti/index.html

 

Yes, just found that out today. I'm still trying to get my head round the branch line timetable <eek/> I think the easiest way to imagine it is that early and late there are normal SP - EG services, but in the middle there are separate SP - HK and HK - EG services, connecting in the middle. I think there is going to be a lot of action focused on HK during the middle of the day.

Tom