Bluebell Railway steaming on: 10^th anniversary year- very rare anniversary booklet

Written and published by the Bluebell Railway Society August1970

scarce booklet, not only covering the first 10 years of theBluebell Railway but a historical document in its own right being more than 50years old.

Condition, good, a few slight marks on cover and pages 15 to31 creased in the bottom right corner, otherwise in excellent condition

The Bluebell Railway is an 11 mi (17.7 km) heritage linealmost entirely in West Sussex in England, except for Sheffield Park which isin East Sussex. It is managed by the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society. Ituses steam trains which operate between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead, withintermediate stations at Horsted Keynes and Kingscote. It is the firstpreserved standard gauge steam-operated passenger railway in the world tooperate a public service.The society ran its first train on 7 August 1960, lessthan three years after the line from East Grinstead to Lewes had been closed byBritish Railways.

On 23 March 2013, the Bluebell Railway started to runthrough to its new East Grinstead terminus station. At East Grinstead there isa connection to the national rail network, the first connection of the BluebellRailway to the national network in 50 years, since the Horsted Keynes –Haywards Heath line closed in 1963. Today the railway is managed and runlargely by volunteers. Having preserved a number of steam locomotives evenbefore steam stopped running on British mainline railways in 1968, today it hasover 30 steam locomotives, the 2nd largest collection in the UK after theNational Railway Museum. The Bluebell also has almost 150 carriages and wagons,most of them pre-1939.