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Stepney's Branch Line, nicknamed The Bluebell Railway for the vast amount of bluebell flowers beside the tracks, is a picturesque branch line run by Stepney.

Engines

Stepney and possibly Flora, are currently the only locomotives known to work on this line; however, Thomas has been seen travelling up and down it numerous times and other North Western Railway engines sometimes use this line to get to Great Waterton instead of using the Main Line.

Route

The line begins north-east of Crovan's Gate, th line goes through a Tunnel where the line splits after the Transfer Yards on the Norramby Branch Line and travels up to the Skarloey Railway Depot and Mr. Percival's House, where it runs next to the Skarloey Railway until it splits at Bluebell Valley Station. After the branch line splits up at a junction with one line going to the Rolling River Bridge and the other running past Green Hills Junction until the line finally stops at Great Waterton at a spur of the Main Line.

Appearances

Trivia

  • The branch line is loosely based on the real life Bluebell Railway.
  • The line has also been called the Bluebell Branch Line.
  • Though located on the Island of Sodor, the branch line itself in many classic series episodes was considered to be a separate railway from the North Western Railway, as the North Western Railway does not own nor operate the line. It was stated many times that it was a separate railway that is far away from Sir Topham Hatt's railway.

Rolling Stock

Locomotives

Coaches and Trucks

Gallery

1994 Map

2014 Map

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