Bluebell Railway Atlantic Group

Click here for latest progress - 17 March 2008

Brighton Atlantic No.32424 "Beachy Head" at Horsted Keynes with the Locomotive Club of Great Britain "Southern Counties Limited", 24th February 1957

Significant progress to date:

• GN Atlantic Boiler obtained
• LBSCR B4 tender chassis obtained
• LBSCR C2X tender wheelsets and axleboxes obtained
• LBSCR Trailing wheelset obtained
• Tender Chassis overhauled and lengthened (2001-5)
• Bogie platework arrives (Dec. 2004)
• Atlantic House constructed - the project now has a home (2005-6)
• Driving wheels and bogie wheels cast (2005)
• Main frames cut, joggled, and delivered (2005)
• Original regulator handle from "Beachy Head" donated to the project (2006)
• Tender chassis re-wheeled (2006)
• Westinghouse pump obtained
• Main Frames erected - 32424 can be said to exist again! (October 2007)

Project Funding

A fund raising appeal for the estimated £300,000 required to complete the project was launched in 2000, and a combination of gifts made via the Bluebell Railway Trust, and standing orders set up to provide a steady income to the project have now made over a third of the total available. Whilst this has provided funding for the present work, more is going to be needed to complete the project, and the best way in which you can help is by setting up a small, regular, standing order to the Bluebell Railway Trust under Gift Aid, since this enables the Trust to reclaim the basic rate tax you have paid, and (if you are a higher rate tax-payer) enables you to reclaim some tax as well.

Would you like to sponsor a specific part of the locomotive? The latest component list is available, from which you can choose a wide variety of important parts of the locomotive. You may prefer to use the combined Sponsorship and GiftAid form available as a pdf.

The appeal leaflet, enabling GiftAid donations and standing orders to be set up is now available as a pdf document. For further details contact David Jones.

A donation is made to this project when you buy Historical Transport Film videos from Beulah.

Latest progress - Background and early progress

Length: 59ft 9in
Weight: Engine 68 Tons 5cwt, Tender 39 Tons 5cwt
Water capacity: 3,500 Gallons
Coal capacity: 4 Tons
Boiler Pressure: 170 lb/sq.in
Driving Wheels: 6ft 7.5in diameter
Cylinders: (2, outside) 21" x 26"
Tractive Effort: 20,841 lbs
BR power classification: 4P