Sheffield Park and the Bluebell Railway

Before Barnaby and I went to the Bluebell Railway we visited Sheffield Park Gardens.

Autumn is the best time to go because of all the different colours.  The trees and bushes were looking lovely.

 

Sheffield Park is also the name of the station where we joined the Bluebell Railway and where Daddy Bear used to come as a volunteer: sometimes helping to restore the engines, sometimes making the tea and sometimes working as a fireman on the footplate.

The volunteers who work there now were kind enough to let us up on the footplate of "his" engine.  He'd have had to work hard to keep it fuelled with enough coal.  It really is a "Giant".   

Our buddy Stewie came with us to the Bluebell too as he was particularly close to Daddy Bear.

He was excited to ride all the way to East Grinstead.  The line wasn't open that far when Daddy Bear volunteered here.

Morris