BR Class 33 No. 33111
No doubt a popular choice amongst our Southern Region fans and a fitting addition in keeping with the local area, the Class 33 ‘Cromptons’ ...
BR Class 14 No. D9551
This specific diesel type, a multi purpose 650hp diesel hydraulic locomotive, was produced at BR’s Swindon Works between the years 1964 and 1965, as ...
English Electric Class 20 No. D8188
D8188 was manufactured by the English Electric Company’s Vulcan Foundry in 1966 as Works No D3669. It commenced service in January 1967 until its ...
LNER Gresley A4 No. 60007 ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley has been a celebrity locomotive since it was named after its designer at London Marylebone in 1937, being the 100th ...
Contractor’s Locomotive ‘Sharpthorn’
This typical Victorian contractors’ loco is instantly recognisable as a Manning Wardle product. What makes this one special was that it was owned by ...
BR Standard Tank No. 80100
One of two Standard 4 Tanks on the Bluebell, this particular locomotive was not a Southern-based engine in its BR days, working from Tilbury ...
SR Maunsell U-class, No. 1618
The Sevenoaks accident of 1927 resulted in the rebuilding of the K-Class tank locomotives, known as the Rivers, as U-class tender engines, in which ...
LSWR Adams Radial Tank No. 30583
Designed for the LSWR’s inner suburban network, these locomotives were displaced by electrification, and the entire class was scrapped by 1927 with the exception ...
BR Standard, No. 92240
The renowned 9Fs were the final steam design of British Railways, and a total of 251 of this most successful heavy-freight design were built. ...
North London Railway Goods Tank
This powerful goods locomotive was built for shunting in the docks served by the North London Railway, and for the goods traffic which emanated ...
LSWR Adams dock tank, No. 96 ‘Normandy’
A deceptively powerful shunting locomotive, it spent most of its working days at Southampton Docks. After disposal by BR it was used, again at ...
BR Standard, No. 75027
The Standard 4 tender engines were designed as a modern branch-line engine, capable of hauling both freight and passenger services on the country’s secondary ...
SR Bulleid Light Pacific, ‘Blackmoor Vale’
Bulleid’s Light Pacifics were revolutionary in many respects, and brought a great enhancement of available power to lightly laid West Country lines which hitherto ...
GWR Earl/Dukedog No. 9017, ‘Earl of Berkeley’
Nicknamed “Dukedogs” since they were an amalgamation a Bulldog and a Duke, the parts of this loco are thus actually older than the “building” ...
LBSCR Stroudley Terrier, No. 55 ‘Stepney’
Stroudley’s famous Terriers survived for decades after more modern designs had been scrapped, working on lightly laid branch lines. Here these diminutive engines were ...
SR U-class, No. 1638
One of two U-class locomotives on the Bluebell Railway, both coming via Barry scrapyard, this one was privately purchased and donated to the Bluebell. ...
LB&SCR Billinton E4 Radial Tank, No. B473
The only surviving locomotive to a design by Robert Billinton, ‘Birch Grove’ is one of a family of locomotives known as Radial Tanks due to the ...
SECR Wainwright goods, No. 592
After the amalgamation of the SER and the LCDR in 1899 it fell to Harry Wainwright to put some order into the locomotive designs ...
Dorking Greystone Lime Company, No. 3 ‘Captain Baxter’
‘Baxter’ arrived at the Bluebell in 1960 after spending its working life at the Dorking Greystone Lime Works at Betchworth station. It was only ...
SECR Wainwright P-class, No. 178
The last of the four P-class tank locomotives to have steamed in preservation, 178 came to the Bluebell in 1969 after industrial service at Bowaters Paper ...
SR Maunsell S15-class No. 847
This class of locomotives, of which this was the final locomotive to be built, were essentially a goods version of the King Arthur class of express ...
Dorking Greystone Lime Co. Ltd. No. 4 ‘Townsend Hook’
A scaled down version of ‘Captain Baxter’, this loco also spent its entire working life at the Betchworth quarry. It was the very first loco ...
North Thames Gas Board Locomotive No. 25
This locomotive was housed temporarily on the Bluebell on behalf of the Industrial Locomotive Society. It had latterly been used in the Retort House ...
Avonside (Works No. 1972) Stewarts & Lloyds No. 24 ‘Stamford’
A rather more typical industrial locomotive than the others in the Bluebell’s collection, it has never been used on the Bluebell. At one time, ...
Rebuilt SR Bulleid Pacific, ‘Port Line’
The first of the Merchant Navy class were authorised for construction during the war as freight locomotives, and indeed they could haul a substantial goods train ...
SR Maunsell S15-class No. 830
This class of locomotives were essentially a goods version of the King Arthur class of express passenger locos (N15). The S15s thus became known as Goods Arthurs. ...
Aveling Porter, No. 9449 ‘The Blue Circle’
Aveling Porter were well known for their road-going steam engines. They also built a few railway locomotives, and most of those surviving are 0-4-0s. ...
SR Bulleid Austerity, No. C1
Known by their nick-name of Charlies this class of locomotives was designed as a wartime economy locomotive by Bulleid, making use of already existing patterns for ...
