Date: 09/03/2013

The final piece of track linking a volunteer steam railway in Sussex with the mainline network has been laid. The Bluebell Railway will officially open its extended track, from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead, on 23 March. The £3.5m project has taken nearly four years to complete, with workers having to remove 100,000 tonnes of domestic waste from the Imberhorne cutting.

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Final track laid for steam railway

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The final piece of track linking a volunteer steam railway in Sussex with the mainline network is laid.

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Bulleid West Country Pacific no 21C123 Blackmore Vale, lined out in Southern Railway colours, photographed at Sheffield Park on the Bluebell Railway on 29 July 2001.
Location: Sheffield Park
Company: East Grinstead to Culver Junction (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)
29/07/2001 Peter Todd

Merchant Navy Class 35027 Port Line leaves Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway and heads for Kingscote in 1992.
Location: Horsted Keynes
Company: East Grinstead to Culver Junction (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)
//1992 Ewan Crawford

View from the signal box at East Grinstead in March 1986. One of the much-loved Thumper DEMUs has just arrived at the platform [see image 21569].
Location: East Grinstead
Company: St Margaret^s Junction to East Grinstead (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)
/03/1986 Ian Dinmore