Vintage Trains Weekend
Vintage Trains Weekend expands upon the planned South East & Chatham Railway Gala and will utilise the Bluebell Railway’ s vintage carriages and steam locomotives.
This weekend will see the first operation of our restored South East and Chatham Railway birdcage brake carriage number 3363 built in 1910 and which has just been restored to its Southern Railway condition by volunteers of the carriage and wagon department over the past 8 years.
Locomotives in service over the weekend include
From the former South East and Chatham Railway
P Class number 178 built 1910
P class number 323 built 1910
C class number 592 built 1902
From the form London Brighton and South Coast Railway
E4 class number B473 built 1898
A1X class number 55 built 1875
From the former Southern Railway
U class number 1638 built 1931
From the former Dorking Cement Works
Number 3 “Captain Baxter” built 1877
Carriages in service this weekend include
From the former Metropolitan Railway
412 built 1900,
394 built 1900,
387 built 1898,
368 built 1898
From the South East and Chatham Railway
3360 built 1889,
114 built 1889,
1098 built 1922
3363 built 1910
From the former London Brighton and South Coast Railway
661 built 1880
From the former London and South Western Railway
1520 built 1910
From the former London and North Western Railway
1503 Observation Car built 1913
From the former Southern Railway (Bulleid coaches)
2526 built 1951,
1482 built 1950,
1464 built 1950
4279 built 1949
In addition, our Wealden Rambler afternoon tea service will operate on Saturday afternoon and the Golden Arrow Pullman on Sunday afternoon
Special Attractions:
The Atlantic House will be open each day from 10am until 4pm to view the progress on our “new” steam locomotive being built to the design of the former London Brighton and South Coast Railway Atlantic class locomotives.
Carriage and Wagon Workshop Tours will take place on Saturday and Sunday lunch times at Horsted Keynes Station.
473 Bus service will operate to its standard timetable all three days between East Grinstead and Kingscote.
Brake van rides behind locomotive number 55 at Horsted Keynes station down part of the old Ardingly branch in a Southern Railway goods brake van (supplement £3.00. Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th November only.
Friday 4th November will be our connoisseurs day. Trains will operate with three small train sets of the Metropolitan coaches, 4 wheeled Victorian coaches and the Southern Compartment coaches as well as a goods train. Locomotives on this day will be from our collection of South East and Chatham Railway locomotives.
Tickets
Adult 3rd Class Day Rover ~ £17.00
Child 3rd Class Day Rover ~ £8.50
Family 3rd Class Day Rover ~ £51.00
Adult 1st Class Day Rover ~ £25.00
Child 1st Class Day Rover ~ £12.50
