Bluebell Beer Festival

Tickets now available
19th - 21st September
Main bar and stage at Sheffield Park

Join us for a unique festival experience with craft beers, live music, and vintage steam trains at the Bluebell Railway Beer Festival!

Imagine sitting at our beautiful Kingscote Railway station sipping wine or a tasty gin or even a glass of your favourite real ale. All amongst steam engines running up and down our glorious railway. Added to this live music at multiple venues and topped with some of your favourite food. Is there a better way to spend your weekend? Come and join us for our stand out beer festival.

Our bars

We will have bars located across the railway. If arriving via East Grinstead why not pop into our carriage cafe where beer will be available whilst you await a train. Alternatively you can try our newly created wine bar located at Kingscote Station goods are where we have created a wine bar with gentle music and a variety of beers, gin and wine with a fancy Crepe from our pancake provide crepe de la creme. Also, we are proud to be supported by The Surrey Copper Distillery & the the Kingscote Vineyard as well as CAMRA at Kingscote. Next stop Horsted Keynes with live Music (Saturday and Sunday) and more beers served from a carriage to you on platform 4. And, in case that is not enough our major bar and stage area, at Sheffield Park Station, will have in the region of 100 ales and craft beers as well as live music and bands across all 3 days together with a variety of hot food, both meals and snacks.

Confirmed bands playing

  • Bow Fiddle Strings
  • GTA Band UK
  • Man The Lifeboats
  • Reminiscents
  • Smokestack
  • Tar Babies
  • The Magpies
  • The Remnants
  • Traveling Ukes
  • V5 (formerly known as Into The Blue) - Featuring Vikkii Webb Medhurst

Our beers

Choose from a variety of different cask beers and enjoy a fine selection of cider and perry too! Beer aficionados will be pleased to hear that priority will be given to Sussex breweries, with an aim of offering each local brewery an opportunity of supplying one of their ales, likewise with cider and perry.

All drinks will be individually priced and sold by pint, half pint and third pint or other appropriate measures for wine and gin. A simple beer token system will be in operation for the beer, with beer tokens available for sale from outlets across the railway. Payment for wine and gin at Kingscote maybe by cash or card.

A busy timetable will be running throughout all three days, including Friday and Saturday evening.

The bar at Sheffield Park Station will close at 10.00pm, with the last rail service leaving Sheffield Park at 10.15pm on both Friday & Saturday.

A bus service will be in operation to Haywards Heath from Sheffield Park after Until 11pm.