Bluebell Railway

Bluebell Railway, Sussex

Journey through the Sussex Weald on a steam train of the Bluebell Railway and you are taking an enjoyable trip down Memory Lane.

Vintage branch line trains ply this preserved line between Sheffield Park, Horsted Keynes and Kingscote. If you come in Spring you will see the bluebells too!

The Bluebell Railway is a super outing for the children, hop on and off trains, take a picnic or explore the shop.

For train fanatics, of course, this place is heaven! If you've not already been, you'll certainly have seen the line, dressed in one guise or another for a film as this is first choice for many cine producers - so take your camera.

To those today who constantly refer to the English as attacking other parts of the island, holding provinces under duress, they might relate the fact that the Norman (ex-Viking) conquestors continued their viscious invasion across the islands for centuries, wiping out sections of the "English" population in some areas, resulting in becoming the established ruling class across the provinces - in form, today's landed aristocracy. Nobody came to help the Saxons (who were the "English" in those days - English peasants, serfs and slaves or Saxo/British-Norman lords?) in their hour of need. If they had, today's picture would different, and Britain and Ireland might have matured into nation-states earlier.

Not far from the Bluebell: Hastings

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