The Bluebell Railway Book

The Bluebell Railway was the premier preserved line in the thirty year period covered in this book. Busy as he was with recording working BR steam in the mid-sixties , David Christie's first visit to the line was by train in 1964 and then from 1967 more frequently by car with a total of eighteen trips. The greater proportion of these were in the 1969-1972 period when the line was usually worked by tank engines and nothing larger than the `Dukedog' 4-4-0. The later, more infrequent visits witnessed a change from the `sleepy branch line' image to more of a `cross-country' feel, using longer trains with larger locomotives. With an array of incredible unpublished photography covering the heyday of this iconic line, from 1964 to 1993, the author offers a wonderfully nostalgic and brilliantly evocative record of this wonderful period in the life of the Bluebell Railway.Read More