Pullman cars
| Fingall pictured on 21st March 1999 at Kingscote in service on the Bluebell
Railway's Golden Arrow dining train. Fingall served on both the Devon Belle
and the Golden Arrow services.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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Fingall stabled in the Pullman Dock at Sheffield Park on 21st
July 2001.
photograph by Colin Duff |
| This is Bertha, a 1933 built Kitchen Composite for 6 Pul set
3012. She is seen here at Kingscote whilst working the Bluebell
Railway's Golden Arrow dining train on 21st March 1999.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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Another view of Bertha, in the Newick Siding at Sheffield Park.
photograph by John Lewis |
| Car Nº64 is a 1928 built Parlour Third which started her
life as a second class Restaurant Car on London-Harwich boat trains. She ran in
the Bournemouth Belle during the Belle's final years of operation. For a
time Car 64 was part of the Bulmers Cider Pullman train.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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The other end of Car No. 64 just before the engine runs round at
Kingscote whilst working the Golden Arrow service on 21t March 1999. Is the
photographer the only person who thinks the two Bluebell volunteer station
staff resemble Paul Shane and Geoffrey Holland in the BBC TV comedy "Oh Mr
Porter"?
photograph by Colin Duff |
| Detail on one side of Fingall's undeframe.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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A Friends of Thomas the Tank Engine weekend with consequentially no Golden
Arrow Pullman dining train running gives the Bluebell's C&W department
the opportunity to give their Pullman cars a good going over. Seen here behind
the carriage works at Horsted Keynes, "Lilian" is the current guise
for all steel 1929 Parlour 3rd Car 76. The Bluebell Railway named this car in
honour of the wife of its President, Bernard Holden MBE.
photograph by Colin Duff |
| It is not often a coach enthusiast gets "up close and
personal" with the parts of a coach not normally seen, but thanks to a
specially arranged tour around the carriage works during an SEmG outing on 20th
June 2003 the photographer was able to capture details of this car's end.
Note that the fittings are the same as for
non-Pullman stock, though the "Pullman Gangway" only became a
standard fitting on other stock in British Railways' days.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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