Bluebell Railway 125 gala parade

The steam cavalcade at the end of the Bluebell125 gala featuring engines nos. 55, 672, 9017, 65, 32473, 1638, 34028 and 21C123

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Autos & Vehicles

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• steam
• train
• Bluebell
• Railway
• UK
• 125
• loco
• locomotive

[Smoofie92]

wheres boxhill (one of the stepney trio)(i think theres also gyspyhill or some third one)

[bluebellnutter]

@Smoofie92 Sorry, Stepney trio? There are only two Terriers on the Bluebell (Stepney and Fenchurch), Boxhill is at the NRM. There's about 11 in total preserved in various places.

[redsquirrel724]

but stepney is unique when she is in her origonal yellow paint. thats why children love her. connection to thomas the tank engines stepey the bluebell engine. they cant take away her yellow colour!

[bluebellnutter]

@redsquirrel724 It's a temporary measure for the 50th anniversary as far as I'm aware. It will be restored when she has a full overhaul, as she's too comercially valuable to be seen for long in anything else.

[redsquirrel724]

i think stepney still runs occasionly it just dosent pull big trains.

proberly those two 4 wheeled coaches tey have on the railway.

[bluebellnutter]

@redsquirrel724 Stepney is currently out of service, having been withdrawn with the expiry of her boiler ticket in 2008. However, she is currently undergoing an overhaul and a repaint into the original black livery as part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations this year. She's due to return to service in the next couple of weeks.

[danlefou]

Isn't this technically a ferrocavalcade?

[Smoofie92]

@BristolCastle hes being overhauled actually but theyre calling it retirement because it will take some time

[bluebellnutter]

@ExcaliburLink Sir Berkeley (the small green industrial one) had run a hot axle-box during the weekend and it was decided not to risk it running around too much, as such it was posed for photographs while the others ran in the cavalcade.

[ExcaliburLink]

Why wasn't that little tank engine in the cavalcade?