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KINGSCOTE STATION

A visit to the NAAFI and an equipment display.

HORSTED KEYNES STATION

Re-enactors from the 23rd (Hastings) Battalion, Sussex Home Guard.

Testing the equipment. No shots were fired but note the gentleman on the left - is his had is a football rattle which sounds awful like shots being fired!

A stall set up on platform five and finally, moments to themselves.

SHEFFIELD PARK STATION

"A good old-fashioned sing-song" and "The Evacuee"

While these images did reasonably well in competition (sing-song got 9½ (out of twelve)) "The Evecuee" won me the Eileen Wadley Cup in the 2016 Exhibition.

EAST GRINSTEAD STATION

More reenactors at East Grinstead. Whether they're in transit or just stationed at EG who knows?

During my search for images for my "Photos of the Month" posts I found a number of years when I visited the Bluebell Railway's "Southern at War" event, traditionally staged in May. Rather than clog up my POTM thread with yet more Bluebell Railway shots I thought I'm create a separate thread.

Now, the first image was not shot on the Bluebell but on the Kent & East Sussex Railway where a similar event was being acted out. Mike Farley, Ron Barker and myself visited Tenterden a week before the Bluebell held it's event.

This gentleman is portraying a Brigadier. Whilst it's not on the Bluebell I have got shots of him previously and subsequently on the Bluebell. In fact a year later I caught up with him at Sheffield Park and presented him with a print which he was pleased to receive.