The Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust held their Members’ Day the weekend after our Giants of Steam Gala, and this video from Harnetty Railways covers the event.
Maxim Gamble also captured this photo of 60007 on the same day, 18 October 2024.
As part of the celebrations in 2025 of 200 years of train travel, we kick off at midday on 1 January by joining in The Railway 200 Global Whistle-Up, the first event in the Bluebell’s participation in Railway 200.
If our timetable for our New Years Day Steam Up is running to plan, then ‘Camelot’ and ‘Fenchurch’ will be at Horsted Keynes at noon, ‘Sir Archibald Sinclair’ will be at Sheffield Park, and the SECR O1 will be en route to Horsted Keynes with a goods train.
In addition, the Southern Electric Traction Group, who look after the Bluebell-owned 4VEP unit 3417 ‘Gordon Pettitt’ at Strawberry Hill Depot, plan to open the shutters there and sound the unit’s horn at noon too.
