The Bluebell Railway 'Branch Line Weekend' May 2017
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2017
- After an absence of 5 years, with the extension to E.Grinstead taking the spot light, the Bluebell Railway have been venturing into more gala events returning to their calendar. The Branch Line Weekend of 2017 was a postponement from last May and comprised of the home fleets smaller locomotives and a guest, courtesy of the National Trust & Bahamas Society, was the Ex-LNWR 1888 Built Coal Tank (n.o.1054).
The Home Fleet:
Ex-SE&CR C Class 592
Ex-SE&CR H Class 263
Ex-SE&CR P Class' 323 'Bluebell & 178
Ex-BR Standard 5MT 73082 'Camelot' (standing in for resident Q Class 30541)
Fletcher Jennings 0-4-0 n.o.3 Captain Baxter
With the weather at its best for early summer in sussex it was in line for fantastic event! All scenes filmed on Saturday the 13th of May 2017 in and around the Bluebell Railway at Horsted Keynes. Hope you enjoy!
the sight of a Black 5 as part of a double header with a tiny little SECR P class is simply adorable!
Liked seeing the Webb Coal tank in action.
Great series of videos. Perhaps if it ever snows when you are out, it would allow you to get some great scenes of the countryside.
Thanks for the video. Off down to the Bluebell in a couple of weeks with an old pal from work. Looking forward to it.
Nice to see Captain Baxter in some main line action. Some beautiful matching loco & stock formations; the Coal Tank on the four-wheelers and the LNW observation car, Camelot on the carmine & creams.
Awesome filming mate : ) I was also there last Saturday and it was by far the railway best ever branch line gala there put on.
Another great film from you
Peter Reed Thanks very much!
Nice to see the little P class 323 formerly of the SER I believe
Thanks for a great video.
Really enjoyed this. Great filming!
Seems it rains all the time in Britain, how do you get so much sunshine in your videos Good work
keep up the good work
6:39 An old and small locomotive and a newer and larger locomotive together. It looks funny. Both are beautiful.
Cool video!
great video. some interesting combos during the day. the LNWR coal tank looked great with the vintage carriages. I heard the C had to bail out early due to failure. and a shame the O1 didnt make it in time
The coal tank was great! Yea the C had safety valve gasket problems and the O1s boiled wasn't quite ready sadly...
Looks like a fab event. Shame i missed it. Camelot oddly suits a branch line consist.
MI Rail shame the Q failed as that would've been slightly more appropriate!
How much money for a ticket
6:37, how cute! The big locomotive couldn't pull the train by itself, so the smaller one had to come and help it.
73082 could pull that train by itself, although the Q class which was supposed to double head with Bluebell failed so Camelot substituted for it.
Bluebell and Camelot, Theres a size comparison for you.
the stander five in the thumbnail and bluebell had to help it
YES 73082 IS NOT A BRANCH LINE LOCO, BLUEBELL.
@@peterbuckley265 it took another locos place that had failed.
1.33 that engine looks like an express engine
thomas and friends are complety inspired by those trains and ambient
What locomotive is the gray one of the spur in the minute 9:06 ?
The 'USA Tank' - an American built, wartime 0-6-0 tank engine ex- Southampton docks, I think. Hasn't steamed in years, but I remember it from when my kids were small.
Roger Whittle those locomotives were used in many places around the world during the World War II, or not?
I'm not the expert, but yes, they were used all over, in the aftermath of WWII, like the USRA S160's? I think there is more than one in preservation in the UK and maybe even one in steam now, but I'm not at all sure.
Roger Whittle One of those locomotives is in a spur in Egypt, but I don't know if is the same model, or if that locomotive stil existing or have been preserved. It isn't operstional.
Google is your friend, especially if you know a bit about what you are looking for.
Four (plus 2) of the USA S100 class tanks are in preservation, one of them still in steam. There you go:
30064 Bluebell Railway - (Awaiting major overhaul)
30065 Kent and East Sussex Railway - (Awaiting major overhaul)
30070 Kent and East Sussex Railway - (Operational)
30072 Ribble Steam Railway - (Undergoing major boiler repairs)
The plus two are Yugoslavian built variants of the S100 class, converted to British USA standard and are on the Shillingstone Railway Project.
And to top of the weirdness, because the Bluebell Railway think they're SO funny, they put an A4 whistle on Bluebell to scare the sh*t out of people in the fields. And it seems to have worked, because it's actually pretty funny.
YES, 73082 IS NOT A BRANCH LINE LOCO, THIS EVENT IS WRONGLY TITLED AS IT WAS NOT A BRANCH LINE EVENT WITH A MAIN LINE LOCO RUNNING !!!, SORT YOURSELVES OUT BLUEBELL RAILWAY FOR GOODNESS SAKE..
The reason as to why 73082 ran was because 30541 failed the night previously.
Again disgustingly no publicity, no mention of 1054 visiting down south and I have waited years to see this NWR Coal tank and when it comes, it is kept quiet, So to make up for the inconvenience it needs to return down here in the nest few years. and advertised. Very annoyed and upset at the worsening lack of publicity in our Useless UK.
It has been reported a few times on both Bluebell website and Facebook also it said in magazines as well.
"disgustingly"? "Very annoyed and upset"? "Useless UK"? It's a steam locomotive, not a cure for cancer. Get a sense of proportion, man. And if you don't like it in the UK, you are free to leave.
You don't like things as they are? Good...fuck off somewhere else then...you're worse than bloody useless here...
With Brex-it!? nah