ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 17-4-2006

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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This week's pictures take a trip on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex. This privately-owned line runs for nine miles from Sheffield Park to Kingscote and it was the first preserved standard gauge railway in the world, opening back in 1960 and still operated almost entirely by volunteer enthusiasts. A marvellous collection of steam locomotives and old train carriages keep alive the fine tradition of Britain's railways. When you buy a ticket to go on the line, you are given one of those rectangular cardboard tickets that will be familiar to anyone who remembers train travel from the 1970s and earlier. There's something reliable and reassuring about those tickets, just like the trains and stations as they used to be, before the madness of privatisation. The images in this set come from visits to the railway in April 2000 and April 2006.

A locomotive at Sheffield Park station in April 2006 (image 2666-59)

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