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Bluebell Railway museum opens

2:13pm Monday 27th June 2011 in News

Bluebell Railway museum opens Bluebell Railway museum opens

Steam age fanatics celebrated the opening of their museum.

The rail buffs of the Bluebell Railway watched Lord Faulkner of Worcester cut the ribbon at their visitor centre at Sheffield Park station, in Uckfield, on Thursday.

The museum charts the history of railways in the south, the line between Lewes and East Grinstead and the fight to create the heritage railway.

It was built thanks to a £2.8 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant, which also paid for sheds for 16 carriages.

About 60 guests watched Thursday’s ceremony.

Roger Price, the railway’s archivist, said: “It is a super new facility. Before, we had a really old museum. Now, this is newly fitted out with interpretative displays.”

The museum is open this weekend, then daily from July 1.

For more information, call the Bluebell Railway on 01825 720800.

Comments(8)

Balloon Popper says...
4:38pm Mon 27 Jun 11

Great attraction that enhances the area.

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John Steed says...
4:47pm Mon 27 Jun 11

please, sheffeild park station is not in uckfield, its about 8 miles away at shefield park, just north of north chailey

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John Steed says...
4:49pm Mon 27 Jun 11

please, sheffeild park station is not in uckfield, its about 8 miles away at shefield park, just north of north chailey

as a regular visitor since the late 60's it i is pleasing to see the continual improvements to this historical railway

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Balloon Popper says...
5:04pm Mon 27 Jun 11

Balloon Popper wrote:
Great attraction that enhances the area.
Southampton is a long way away from East Sussex so mistakes get made when reporting geographically......
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pressforaction says...
5:31pm Mon 27 Jun 11

Why the unnecessary, denigrating reference to "steam age fanatics"? We would have thought that The Argus was above making snide references like that. The Bluebell has been a serious contributor to the heritage of Sussex for over 50 years now, and ranks as a top ten tourist attraction in the South East. Its members and supporters should no more be stereotyped "steam age fanatics" than the Argus's journalists should be lumped together as illiterate hacks.

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Balloon Popper says...
5:35pm Mon 27 Jun 11

I was with you all the way until the last sentence... The argument collapsed with the Argus journalists not all being illiterate hacks.

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pressforaction says...
5:49pm Mon 27 Jun 11

That was the whole point! Argus reporters are not illiterate hacks, any more than Bluebell members are steam age fanatics.
Or are you suggesting that Argus journos ARE illiterate... no surely not...

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Balloon Popper says...
7:46pm Mon 27 Jun 11

pressforaction wrote:
That was the whole point! Argus reporters are not illiterate hacks, any more than Bluebell members are steam age fanatics.
Or are you suggesting that Argus journos ARE illiterate... no surely not...
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