- Over the coming few days we have our first ordinary public trains since last half term. From Saturday through to New Year’s Eve we are running from Sheffield Park to Horsted Keynes, as the tunnel is currently closed for its rail to be replaced.
Then we have our New Years Day Steam Up, with four locomotives in steam, with some services running North of Horsted Keynes up to the tunnel mouth. Access by public transport is available via Metrobus Service 270 from East Grinstead and Haywards Heath.
Public services then resume for the February Half Term where, alongside our ‘Kids for s Quid’ special offer, we also have ice skating with Bluebell on Ice between 15 and 23 February.
- David Cable’s photo shows ‘Beachy Head’ at Horsted Keynes on a Jon Bowers’ photo charter on 18 November. The newly built Brighton Atlantic locomotive is currently receiving maintenance work, which is mainly dealing with minor teething issues discovered during its highly successful Summer and Autumn in service.
- We have had a very good Santa Special and SteamLights season, with just a few compartments available for some of the remaining Santa’s SteamLights services (28-30 December).
The first photo below from Nick Gilliam shows 80151 leaving Horsted Keynes with the 6pm SteamLights service to Sheffield Park on 29 November. The second, from David Lilley, shows ‘Camelot’ with a Santa Special service on 8 December.
