Branch Line Weekend 2010 - Saturday

20th February 2010

Photographs from the Saturday of this year's branch line event at the Bluebell, featuring the smaller engines from the home fleet and vintage carriages.

This year the event featured the first gala appearance since it's return to traffic of newly repainted B473, as well as visiting engines Fairburn 4MT no. 42085 (from the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway) and Standard 2MT no. 78019 (from the Great Central Railway).

B473 works north toward Kingscote in hard frost 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat01.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 10:21:25	672 takes the goods back to Horsted 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat02.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 10:34:46	Following the arrival of the freight at Horsted, 672 would come off and work brake van shuttles 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat03.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 10:34:57
The Fairburn tank heads north 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat04.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 10:56:47	B473 runs south in glorious sunshine 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat05.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 11:10:31	B473 passes the derelict platform 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat06.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 11:10:40
The Fairburn runs back toward the tunnel 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat07.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 11:42:53	C class 592 brings vintage wooden-bodied stock out of the tunnel 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat08.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 12:04:45	B473 leaves smokes in the tunnel as it heads north 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat09.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 12:48:50
The excellent paint-job on B473 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat10.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 12:48:55	42085 coasts southwards 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat11.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 14:14:42	C class 592 pounds through 3072x2304 BLW2010Sat12.JPG.jpg 2010-02-20 14:35:05