THe Bluebell Railway. East & West Sussex.

We went to the headquarters of the Bluebell Railway at Sheffield Park today. This is the first preserved passenger railway in the world to operate a regular public service. The line was closed by "butcher" Beeching over 50 years ago and within three years of its closure, the preservation society ran its first train from East Grinstead to Lewes. The  railway today is run mainly by volunteers and it has the largest collection of steam locomotives after the National Railway Museum in York. My blip of the interior of a late 1950's third class carriage takes takes me right back to my boyhood years. Happy days!