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Bluebell Railway

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The Bluebell Railway is a heritage line almost entirely in West Sussex in England, except for Sheffield Park which is in East Sussex. [1]

76 relations: A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A272 road, Act of Parliament, Appleford-on-Thames, Ardingly, Barcombe Mills, BBC News, Beeching cuts, Bernard Holden, Brighton main line, British Rail, British Rail Class 401, British Rail Class 402, Burgess Hill, Clay, Croydon, DB Cargo UK, Diesel multiple unit, East Grinstead, East Grinstead railway station, East Sussex, England, Frederick Banister, Freehold (law), GB Railfreight, Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, Hanson (company), Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield, Heritage Lottery Fund, Heritage railway, Home, Hoorn, Hoorn–Medemblik heritage railway, Horsted Keynes, Housing estate, Imberhorne Viaduct, Kingscote railway station, Landfill, Lavender Line, LB&SCR A1X class 55 Stepney, LB&SCR H2 class, Lewes, Lewes railway station, Light Railways Act 1896, London, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, M50 motorway (Great Britain), Medemblik, Methane, Mid Sussex, ..., National Railway Museum, Netherlands, Network Rail, Nicholas Owen (journalist), North Holland, Oxfordshire, Planning permission, Public inquiry, Samuel Laing (science writer), Seaford railway station (England), Secretary of State for the Environment, Secretary of State for Transport, Sheffield Park Garden, Sheffield Park railway station, SR Class 2NOL, St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes, Standard-gauge railway, Steam locomotive, Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway, Third rail, Vera Lynn, Victorian era, Wealden Line, West Hoathly railway station, West Sussex, 4-4-2 (locomotive). Expand index (26 more) »

A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames and east of the A3 (roads beginning with 2).

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A272 road

The A272 is a road in southeast England.

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Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).

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Appleford-on-Thames

Appleford-on-Thames is a village and civil parish on the south bank of the River Thames about north of Didcot, Oxfordshire.

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Ardingly

Ardingly is a village and civil parish in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty about north of Haywards Heath in the Mid Sussex district of the local government county of West Sussex, within historic Sussex England.

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Barcombe Mills

Barcombe Mills is a small settlement and an area of countryside including a local nature reserve near the village of Barcombe Cross in East Sussex, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Bernard Holden

Bernard Holden MBE (15 March 1908 – 4 October 2012) was a twentieth century railway engineer and manager with Southern and British Railways and a founding father of standard gauge railway preservation in the United Kingdom.

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Brighton main line

The Brighton Main Line (also known as the South Central Main Line) is a British railway line divided in the north into two sections running from London Victoria and London Bridge to Brighton.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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British Rail Class 401

The Southern Railway (SR) gave the designation 2-BIL to the DC third rail electric multiple units built during the 1930s to work long-distance semi-fast services on the newly electrified lines from London to Eastbourne, Portsmouth and Reading.

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British Rail Class 402

The Southern Railway (SR) gave the designation 2-HAL to the electric multiple units built during the late 1930s to work long-distance semi-fast services on the newly electrified lines from London Victoria to Maidstone and Gillingham (Kent).

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Burgess Hill

Burgess Hill is a civil parish and a town located in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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DB Cargo UK

DB Cargo UK, formerly DB Schenker Rail UK and English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS), is a British rail freight company headquartered in Doncaster, England.

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Diesel multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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East Grinstead

East Grinstead is a town and civil parish in the northeastern corner of Mid Sussex district of West Sussex in England near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders.

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East Grinstead railway station

East Grinstead railway station is one of the two southern termini of the Oxted line in the south of England and serves East Grinstead in West Sussex.

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East Sussex

East Sussex is a county in South East England.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Frederick Banister

Frederick Dale Banister MICE (15 March 1823 – 22 December 1897), was an English civil engineer, best known for his 35 years as the Chief Engineer of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR).

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Freehold (law)

In common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, United States, Australia, Canada and Ireland), a freehold is the common ownership of real property, or land, and all immovable structures attached to such land, as opposed to a leasehold, in which the property reverts to the owner of the land after the lease period has expired.

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GB Railfreight

GB Railfreight is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom.

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Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWR, GWSR or Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway) is a volunteer-run heritage railway which runs along the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border of the Cotswolds, England.

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Hanson (company)

Hanson Limited, formerly Hanson Trust plc, is a British based international building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead.

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Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield

Henry North Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield (18 January 1832 – 21 April 1909), styled Viscount Pevensey until 1876, was an English Conservative politician and patron of cricket.

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Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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Home

A home, or domicile, is a dwelling-place used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for an individual, family, household or several families in a tribe.

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Hoorn

Hoorn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

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Hoorn–Medemblik heritage railway

The Hoorn–Medemblik heritage railway operated by the Museumstoomtram Hoorn Medemblik is a heritage railway in the Netherlands.

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Horsted Keynes

Horsted Keynes is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

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Housing estate

A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development.

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Imberhorne Viaduct

Imberhorne Viaduct is a Grade II listed railway viaduct located in East Grinstead, West Sussex, South-East England.

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Kingscote railway station

Kingscote railway station is a preserved railway station on the heritage Bluebell Railway, located in West Sussex, England.

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Landfill

A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.

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Lavender Line

The Lavender Line is a heritage railway based at Isfield Station, near Uckfield in East Sussex, England.

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LB&SCR A1X class 55 Stepney

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway A1X Class number 55 Stepney is a preserved steam locomotive based at the Bluebell Railway in East and West Sussex, England.

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LB&SCR H2 class

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway H2 class was a class of 4-4-2 steam locomotives for express passenger work.

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Lewes

Lewes is the county town of East Sussex and formerly all of Sussex.

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Lewes railway station

Lewes railway station serves the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England.

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Light Railways Act 1896

The Light Railways Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c.48) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was).

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR; known also as "the Brighton line", "the Brighton Railway" or the Brighton) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

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M50 motorway (Great Britain)

The M50 is a 22-mile/35-km-long dual two-lane motorway in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire, England.

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Medemblik

Medemblik is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.

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Methane

Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen).

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Mid Sussex

Mid Sussex is a local government district in the English county of West Sussex.

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National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York forming part of the British Science Museum Group of National Museums and telling the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Nicholas Owen (journalist)

Nicholas David Arundel Owen (born 10 February 1947) is an English journalist, television presenter and radio presenter.

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North Holland

North Holland (Noord-Holland, West Frisian Dutch: Noard-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands located in the northwestern part of the country.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Planning permission

Planning permission or developmental approval refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation) in some jurisdictions.

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Public inquiry

A tribunal of inquiry is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body.

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Samuel Laing (science writer)

Samuel Laing, (12 December 1812 – 6 August 1897), was a British railway administrator, politician, and writer on science and religion during the Victorian era.

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Seaford railway station (England)

Seaford railway station is in Seaford, East Sussex, England.

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Secretary of State for the Environment

The Secretary of State for the Environment was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Department of the Environment (DoE).

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Secretary of State for Transport

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport.

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Sheffield Park Garden

Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England.

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Sheffield Park railway station

Sheffield Park is the southern terminus of the Bluebell Railway and also the headquarters of the line.

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SR Class 2NOL

The Southern Railway (SR) gave the designation 2-NOL to the electric multiple units built during the 1930s from old London and South Western Railway carriage bodies on new underframes.

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St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes

St Giles' Church is an Anglican church in the village of Horsted Keynes in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway

The Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway was a branch of the Midland Railway which ran from Ashchurch via Tewkesbury to Great Malvern in the United Kingdom.

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Third rail

A third rail is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.

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Vera Lynn

Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (born 20 March 1917), widely known as "the Forces' Sweetheart", is an English singer of traditional pop, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Wealden Line

The Wealden LineBroadbent, S., p. 48.

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West Hoathly railway station

West Hoathly is a closed railway station on what is now the Bluebell Railway.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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4-4-2 (locomotive)

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents a configuration of four leading wheels on two axles, usually in a leading bogie with a single pivot point, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck which supports part of the weight of the boiler and firebox and gives the class its main improvement over the configuration.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebell_Railway

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