Southern Steam: The Bluebell Line before and after closure

[bermudarailway]

Wonderful well done !

[MiLLwallpaul231258]

where did akll that water come from at Lewes?

[Eddy2730]

What an insight! Thanks!

[Cashpotty]

Very nice film, if the owner has a full quality version we could do a lot with the first part to make it clearer and remove the raveges of time. Please get in touch as there is much detail there lost in the darkness of time!

[linesman67]

Many thanks for this extremely rare piece of film. Never before have I seen any footage of Newick & Chailey station - a real gem for those who remember the old Lewes to East Grinstead railway line before the preservation of the section north of Sheffield Park. Interesting scenes of Culver junction and the route into Lewes too. Marvellous! Any more like this?

[SouthernRailwayFilms]

Very possibly. I am slowly chomping my way through quite a collection! Keep 'em peeled.

[dfcvda]

brilliant made my day finding this.

[revbigjohn]

Superb video - thankyou. Any identification of the front (south end) coach in the final Bluebell shot - its green, maybe the Director's Carriage?

[grosvenor326]

@revbigjohn It is definitely the directors saloon shortly after its arrival on the railway.

[Mikal2475]

Great video showing the floods and evevrything.

[freqeist]

also great to see the train emerge through the malling cutting at 4:47 in Lewes and how high up it is!

[freqeist]

good to see just going into Lewes, amazing

[Northstander]

Fantastic footage, thank you very much, wonderful to think that it won't be much longer before steam trains can run again from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead.

Floreat vapor.

[slimjimwittywoo]

Thank you for uploading this. Amazing

[exeter34001]

all that southern nostalgia , fantastic stuff....thanks for posting.Paul

[NN2Blue]

Thank you! 5* Very good video.

[ravenseft]

Fascinating to see East Grinstead High Level station in operation at 2.34.

[sussexmews]

EXTREMLEY WORTHY!

[mattmay05]

amazing footage!

[mward5291]

cheers for up loading this, i work on the line and i didn't no what the stations looked like before preservation or the line for that fact, cheers again