North London Railway 0-6-0T No. 158850 (27505) (7505) (2605) (16)
Sheffield Park, Sussex, UK 		Location: Bluebell Railway
Status: Display
Posted: Oct 28, 2023 @ 10:10:02 by Russell Newman
The former North London Railway 0-6-0T Dock Tank No. 27505 will be moved from Horsted Keynes Station to Sheffield Park over the winter to go on display in the Bluebell Railway’s Steamworks in the sheds at Sheffield Park.
Posted: Apr 19, 2023 @ 05:04:25 by Russell Newman
The former former North London Railway 0-6-0T Dock Tank No. 76 (BR No. 58850) has undergone a cosmetic makeover aa it has been repainted into LMS Black livery with her LMS number No. 27505 as it would have carried from 1934 to 1949. and will be on display during the Bluebell Railway’s Branch Line weekend from the 21st to 23rd of Aril 2023. After the event the locomotive will go undercover and be on display at Sheffield Park loco sheds.
Posted: Dec 26, 2022 @ 06:12:29 by Russell Newman
After a number of years of outside storage the former North London Railway 0-6-0T Dock Tank No. 76 (BR No. 58850) is being moved from Horsted Keynes Station for undercover display at Sheffield Park. No. 76 also played a key part in the history of the Bluebell Railway as in its early preservation years No. 76 was hired by contractors to help take up part of the track of the line from Horsted Keynes to Haywards Heath via Ardingly line in 1964 to 1965 when that line closed. Plans are underway for this section of line to be restored for use again to Ardingly soon. No. 76 will have some cosmetic work carried out before going on display in 2023.
Posted: Sep 17, 2018 @ 13:09:46 by Steve Frost
This is the sole survivor, not only of a class of 30 locomotives, but of the entire North London Railway locomotive fleet. 14 of the locos were left at nationalisation in 1948 and the last survivors of the class were sent to the Cromford and High Peak line in Derbyshire, far away from their home turf. Here they hauled trains over the tight curves and very fierce gradients of the line until replaced by class J94 saddle tank locos. Withdrawal of this veteran, the last survivor of the class, came in 1960. The loco was then preserved on the Bluebell Railway and has been there ever since.