Another Sales Stand!

Worthing Model Railway Show  

The Fenchurch Fund will be attending the Worthing Model Railway Show this weekend at Durrington High School, The Boulevard, Worthing West Sussex BN13 1LA.  The opening times are from 10 - 5 on Saturday and 10 - 4 on Sunday. For more details go to www.worthingmrc.co.uk/exhibition_2022

In addition to the usual Fenchurch Sales Stand we are joined by "Billy no Mates" model Railway Club who is showing the "Work in progress" model of Botolph's on the Lancing and Bramber Railway, a narrow-gauge line which (in the imaginary history) ran from Lancing Widewater to Bramber and on to Storrington. There was also a connection to the Small Dole Railway.  Handily PECO produces ready to run stock for both routes! (L&B and SDR)

Giants of Steam

We will be having a sales stand at the Giants of Steam event again this year at Sheffield Park, either on Platform 1 or in Steam Works (depending on the weather forecast). We will have all the usual things on the stand and (if we are in Steam Works) short, guided walks around the little locos of the Bluebell Railway, Including viewing the works being carried out on No.27, if it is safe to do so.  This is subject to confirmation.

We hope to see you at one or both of the events above!

NEW WEBSITE!

We can at last, announce the new web site for The Little Loco Group this gives the latest information on the restoration of the loco together with other information and useful links to other pages.  This can be found at:

Home - Little Loco Group

Contact Information

To make a donation, please go to the Bluebell Trust's donation page at: 

 https://www.bluebell-railway.com/make-a-donation/ 

You will then need to select "P27 - Restoration of SECR P Class No27" from the pull down menu.

To visit our on line shop please click the link below:

Home | The Fenchurch Fund - Project 27 (square.site)

where you will find many items for sale, including clothing, gifts, railwayana, books and soon, models!

For general correspondence and other enquiries, please email us at:

thefenchurchfund@gmail.com

For more details on the history of No.27 please go the the Loco 27 page on the Bluebell Railway website:

Locomotives under overhaul - Bluebell Railway in Sussex (bluebell-railway.com)

We would like to thank our supporters for their continued encouragement, donations and injections of humour and goodwill over the last two difficult years.  It is much appreciated by the team.

We look forward to seeing you at various events over the coming year.  we are already getting invitations to attend shows away from the railway as well as the usual "big days" on the railway.

More pictures

 I have recently unearthed some pictures via a well-known online auction site! They are from the early 1960s and are taken at a few different locations.

A freshly painted No.27 taken by Harold D. Bowtell on the 25th May 1963
It is standing on the loco headshunt at Sheffield Park

27 collecting its train from the Pumphouse Siding at Sheffield Park

And drawing towards Platform 2

Believed to be on the same day as the previous two pictures No.27 can be seen running round her train at Horsted Keynes

Back at Sheffield Park R.A.Panting catches Loco No.27 in Platform 1 at Sheffield Park
on the 15th September 1963 with a train bound for Horsted Keynes

Alec Ford captures No.27 Primrose sitting in the Pumphouse siding with Carriage 1050 
whilst the public look on from the loco yard, how things change!