Goods train One was of pre-grouping stock from London Brighton
and South Coast Railway and South Eastern & Chatham Railways, hauled in the
morning on Saturday by No.96 Normandy and in the afternoon by SECR O1 Class locomotive
(No. 65).
Goods train Two on Saturday consisted of
No.9017 Earl of Berkeley with wagons of grouping stock from Southern
Railway and London Midland and Scottish Railway. On Sunday the Goods
Train was run Fenchurch No.672 in charge.
Normandy performed shunts at Horsted
Keynes station with a set of engineers wagons and the trains where
supplemented with passenger rated vans.
Vintage British Railways road
vehicles where on display at Horsted Keynes with the Mechanical Horse Club.
The Bluebell Railway performed in
the way we have come to expect and put on demonstration of what was once
an everyday occurrence in the South East of England.
The weather was lovely on Saturday
with clear blue sky and strong winds and Sunday was overcast with some sunny
period, most of which escaped me when the trains passed by. Despite the
operational problems over the weekend a very good service of Good Trains was on
show.
