LSWR “Greyhound” T9, No. 120
The T9s were nicknamed Greyhounds on account of the turn of speed they could achieve. When first built, they were used for the lightly ...
SR “USA” class Dock Tank No. WD 1959 (BR 30064)
Built to the designs of the US Army for wartime shunting requirements, this loco was one of several sold off as surplus after WWII ...
BR Standard 4MT Tank No. 80064
The last in a long line of large tank locomotives to have been built at Brighton Works, the Standard 4 tanks were closely associated ...
BR(S) 4 Vep unit 3417 ‘Gordon Pettitt’
3417 was formally handed over by South West Trains to the Bluebell Railway on Saturday 17 January 2009 at a ceremony at East Grinstead. ...
BR(S) Oxted DEMU 1305 ‘Brighton Royal Pavilion’
“Oxted units or “3D” DEMUs were built for the Southern Region, specifically for use along the Oxted Line to East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells ...
BRCW Type 3 “KA-2B” (Class 33/0) D6570 ‘Ashford’ (33052)
Class 33 locomotives were not just a specific Southern Region class, but were closely associated with services at East Grinstead in the early 1960s, ...
BR Standard Class 2 No. 84030
The photo shows the new side tanks in position on 84030’s extended frames, on 18 July 2023. Since then work has progressed on construction ...
LBSCR H2-class Atlantic No. 32424 ‘Beachy Head’
This magnificent locomotive is the result of our project to reconstruct a Brighton H2 Atlantic based on SR/BR period “Beachy Head”. It is based ...
SECR Wainwright P-tank, No.A27
The P-class tank locomotives were, in design terms, an updated copy of the LBSCR Terriers. Coming to the Bluebell in 1961, for two years ...
SR Maunsell Schools-class, ‘Stowe’
The final development of the classic express 4-4-0, the Schools class were designed originally for the Hastings line with its restricted loading gauge, but ...
SECR Wainwright H-class No. 263
Built as the standard loco for the SECR’s suburban services, the H-class were a popular loco in later years for services on rural branch ...
SR Maunsell Q-class No. 541
Built as a basic goods engine to replace life-expired pre-grouping locomotives, this was Maunsell’s final design as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway. ...
SECR Wainright P-class, No. 323 ‘Bluebell’
Long the flagship of the Bluebell’s fleet, painted blue and named ‘Bluebell’ between 1961 and 1998, this loco was repainted into SE&CR wartime plain ...
BR Class 09 Diesel Shunter D4106
The 09 class of diesel-electric shunters were a Southern Region version (of which only 26 were built) of the ubiquitous 08 class of 350HP ...
Howard Petrol-engined Locomotive
Built by Howards in 1926, No 957 was used to shunt their agricultural implement and railway wagon factory sidings in Bedford. The Britannia Iron ...
BR Class 73 (JB) Electro-Diesel E6040 ‘The Bluebell Railway’
Known latterly as Class 73s, these were electric locomotives for the Southern Region’s third-rail system, but incorporating a 600 hp diesel engine, similar to ...
SECR O1-class No. 65
Built at Ashford as an ‘O’ class locomotive to a design already 18 years old, it received a rebuild to class ‘O1’ in 1908, ...
BR Standard 5MT No. 73082 ‘Camelot’
One of the range of “Standard” locomotives designed for British Railways, the basic design took as its starting point William Stanier’s LMS Black Fives, ...
LBSCR Terrier No. 72 ‘Fenchurch’
Stroudley’s famous Terriers survived for decades after more modern designs had been scrapped, working on lightly laid Branch lines. ‘Fenchurch’ was sold to the ...
Rebuilt SR Bulleid Battle of Britain Pacific No. 34059 ‘Sir Archibald Sinclair’
The identical “West Country” and “Battle of Britain” pacifics were built to provide increased power for use on the Southern’s secondary main lines, especially ...
