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When Britain's 17-mile Sheffield Park Branch Railway opened back in 1882, the Sussex countryside" through which it ran was so thickly strewn with wildflowers that passengers had only to reach out the window to pick bouquets of bluebells and primroses. But over the years, despite the railway...
It was enough to bring all the local sentimentalists out of the woods in full cry against unfeeling bureaucrats. The sentimentalists discovered a clause in Parliament's original authorizing law requiring the Bluebell line to operate not fewer than four trains a day, and it took another three years...
The Midnight Choo Choo. Bluebell fans happily set about repainting the gingerbread Victorian station in its original hues of chocolate brown and yellow, with no intention of stopping there. Wives and children helped clear the track of weeds, and retired railroad men nostalgically offered their services free if locomotives and...
To most of the people of Sussex, the decision was no hardship. It was no hardship at all to Miss R.E.M. Bessemer, the lean, sixtyish granddaughter of famed Steelman-Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, whose family home is within a stone's throw of the Bluebell and Primrose. Though she...
One day last week more than 100 passengers in holiday mood boarded the Bluebell and Primrose, hung from windows and pummeled each other gayly as-for the first time since May 1955-the half-century-old engine and two wooden coaches puffed through the countryside. "I've never seen...