Bluebell Railway East Grinstead Open Day 2010

A short video taken on Saturday 5th June 2010 at Bluebell Railway's East Grinstead Open Day in West Sussex. The weekend gave an opportunity to visit the future station site and walk down across the viaduct to the north end of the tip (the original railway cutting was used as a landfill site after the railway closed due to the Beeching cuts) and to see the track laid from the station platform as far as the tip in readiness for the spoil trains. Since last October many local residents had requested the chance to re-walk the route and so Bluebell had once again opened the site up, with members of the extension team on hand to answer any questions. It is believed that this weekend was the final chance to walk across the viaduct. Station admission tickets were priced at £4.00 if purchased before 31st May or £5.00 from 1st June and on the day. Soon steam trains will be able to continue north from Kingscote all the way into East Grinstead, conecting up with the national rail network. For more details on the railway and to support this northern extension, please visit the following; http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/bluebell.html

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• preserved
• bluebell
• railway
• northern
• extension
• east
• grinstead
• open
• day
• west
• sussex

[Strawberry7Lynn]

So the green wall is the rubbish tip that has to be removed?

[Paulwherrell]

Luckily for the Bluebell line that viaduct wasn't demolished in the 1960s. I'm looking forward to the day when you'll be able to connect to their trains in East Grinstead.

[XxBec3509]

Hey that looks good ,, any extra lineage is fantastic news ,,thanks for sharing Sean :)