Bluebell Railway General Discussion

34059 - Set A - 6 Green Mk1s
32424 - Set B - (OBO) + Mets + Pre Grouping Bogies
1001 - HDU

Set A has a RMB offering hot and cold drinks along with various light refreshments. I hope you have a good visit!

 

Thank you all

 

I notice there are 4 trains running on Saturday (albeit only 2 in public service), that's almost a gala!

 

Bluebell Railway - Public Train Information

 

Yes, quite busy, particularly because the B service also does an early-morning train (as part of the rail collector's fair).

Saturday
A - 73082 / Mark 1 set
10:30 / 13:00 / 15:55 ex Sheffield Park

B - 80151 / Brighton bogie 1st + Mets + LNWR Obo
09:20 / 11:45 / 14:40 ex Sheffield Park

Golden Arrow Charter - 32424 / Pullmans
10:55 ex SP (runs a non-standard diagram SP - HK - KC - HK - KC - EG - KC - HK - SP)

Wealden Rambler - 34059 - WR Set
13:45 ex Sheffield Park

Golden Arrow Evening - 32424 - Pullmans
19:30 / 21:30 ex Sheffield Park

Plenty of five figure numbers there for @The Gricing Owl

Tom

 

Thank you very much Tom.

I'd love to come over this weekend. But being up to my waist in DB 44 class 2-10-os, 01 pacifics and those wonderful old P8 38 class 4-6-0s, it will take 80151 on just the 4 Maunsells to see me get across to the Glockenblume-Dampfeisenbahn at present.
I hope you are still enjoying NZ, and all is going well for you and yours down there.

Bryan

 

Hastings Unit is now on B turn
80151 covers WR turn
73082 and 32424 on planned workings

34059 unfortunately failed

 

A few shots of No.65 on holiday at Didcot from Saturday, the first day of the 1466 return to steam event.








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My like is for 31065 and, to follow on from what @Jamessquared has said, the valuable and essential missionary work it is doing. And not for the wr locos.

Bryan

 

RAIB have just announced that they will be doing an investigation into an incident involving Stepney and Fenchurch on 9th August:

 

Glad nobody was hurt!

 

Not a good weekend for heritage railways given the Severn Valley's derailment at Kidderminster too.

 

What we should remember is these things do happen, and in terms of incident numbers heritage railways do well to keep them down.

There are always positives in the negatives, and certainly in the cases of both Bluebell and SVR those positives will be some good learning points which can take operations forward for the better.

 

I hope so

 

Not much chance of hiding something that happened in a station in the middle of a gala though!

 

Unfortunately, heritage railways in general have a much higher incidence rate than on the big railway when you consider the mileages and number of operational movements.

 

I’m not entirely sure that’s correct. I work on both.

The incident rate (Ie number of incidents) on the big railway is much higher because naturally more workings, more trains, etc. I mean there’s been 14 SPADs on the big railway in total for the past 7 day period, I doubt on heritage it’s near that.

Incident per mile I’d agree, but then it’s bound to be higher on heritage compared to mainline because of the ammount of miles.

But that’s a given, the incident per mile/per movement/per hour rate will always be higher because there’s less of the per on heritage.

 

Certainly the ORR's view is that heritage railways have disproportionately more accidents. I'm sure I have seen and heard them state this in various media.

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Correct. Their view is that Rate per operational movement heritage railways have more accidents. But that is somewhat a given considering how many operational movements occur. 10/100 on heritage is going to be a greater percentage than 10/10000 on mainline.

I still think considering a high percentage of heritage volunteers are not mainline men, that the sector does well to keep incidents down.