Sheffield Park

Kent Rail

Sheffield Park

Bluebell & Primrose Line

August 1988

Much building work is in evidence around the siding which eventually became dedicated to Pullman stock. The

engine shed was not fully completed for another eighteen years, which including in-filling all gaps with red brick.

Mike Glasspool

August 1988

The two-road locomotive works dates from the 1970s and sits immediately adjacent to the engine shed. On the

left is Merchant Navy Class No. 35027 ''Port Line'', which was a resident of the Bluebell Railway between 1988

and 2000. Since 2004, the locomotive has been based at Southall, having been at the Swanage Railway during

the interim. Mike Glasspool

19th May 1991

The previous photograph depicted ''Port Line'', now a resident of Southall. In the above view is seen a former

resident of the same ex-Western Region shed, Class 9F 2-10-0 No. 92240. This was one of numerous Standard

Class locomotives which fell foul to rapid modernisation, so much that it had a British Railways career of a

mere seven years. Built at Crewe in 1958, it found itself on Barry Island within the scrap line as soon as 1965.

Thankfully, like most locomotives dumped at the famous South Wales scrap yard, it was purchased for

preservation, arriving at Sheffield Park in October 1978. Mike Glasspool

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