1. A full day of vintage Steam with SECR-liveried ‘01’ Class No.65 at the head of vintage passenger stock, Monday 19th February 2018
Bluebell Railway

A full day of vintage Steam with SECR-liveried ‘01’ Class No.65 at the head of vintage passenger stock, Monday 19th February 2018

Winter steam action at the Bluebell Railway in West Sussex featuring South Eastern & Chatham Railway-liveried ‘01’ Class 0-6-0 No.65 hauling a train of vintage passenger stock.

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We are delighted to offer a full day’s photography using South Eastern & Chatham Railway-liveried ‘01’ Class 0-6-0 No.65 heading up coaching stock of appropriate vintage from the Bluebell Railway’s impressive collection of heritage passenger vehicles.

We will start from Sheffield Park station at 09.00 and, with the exception of a short break around mid-day for servicing the locomotive, we will be out on the line all day until dusk. Travel will be by train as we are using passenger stock and we will take in as many of the better photographic locations that the line has to offer including (light permitting) backlit, glint and silhouette opportunities.

Our charter features a full day of photography using the 1896-built No.65 at the head of some of the Bluebell Railway’s superb vintage coaching stock. One of the more handsome of the pre-Grouping locomotives to have survived into preservation, No.65 was built as an ‘O’ Class for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway at Ashford Works to a Stirling design, being modified into a Class ‘01’ in September 1908. There were 59 members of the class fitted with larger boilers between 1903 and 1932. No.65 (as SR A65 and later 1065) lasted into British Railways service when it became No.31065, not being withdrawn until 24th June 1961. When in store before being scrapped, the loco was purchased privately by Mr Esmond Lewis-Evans and moved to the Ashford Steam Centre. After this centre closed, the ‘01’ went into storage, eventually moving to the Bluebell Railway for restoration in the late-1990s. The locomotive returned to service in August 1999 in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the South Eastern and Chatham Joint management Committee (the merging of the South Eastern Railway and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway).

Today, No.65 is immaculately restored in SECR lined green livery with polished dome and will look superb at the head of the line’s vintage coaching stock. We hope many of you will wish to join us for a day of pre-Grouping steam action.

And later, there is the opportunity of a separate, rather different night shoot at Horsted Keynes station for those who like the bold and imaginative… For details, please see our separate invitation.

Event cost £65.00 per person.

Images courtesy of Paul Pettitt

 

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