Stepney's Branch Line

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The Bluebell Branch Line
Overview
Status	Operational
Locale	Island of Sodor
Stations	3
Operations
Operator(s)	Bluebell Railway
Technical Details
No. of tracks	2 (From The Transfer Yards to Neville's Bridge) and from Woodland Track to Sodor River Bridge 1 (From Hillside Mill to Bluebell Valley)
Gauge	4'8½" (1,435 mm; standard gauge)
Map

Stepney's Branch Line, also known as The Bluebell Railway in some of the episodes in Series 4 and 5, runs from north of Crovan's Gate to Ballahoo with a branch to Great Waterton. Due to a vast amount of bluebell flowers beside the tracks, the line is nicknamed the "Bluebell Railway".

Route

Sam Wilkinson Map

The line begins north-east of Crovan's Gate, at the Transfer Yards on the Norramby Branch Line and travels up to a line that splits to the Skarloey Railway Depot and Mr. Percival's House. The main branch runs next to the Skarloey Railway until it splits at Bluebell Valley Station. One line reconverge at the wharf while another line heads towards Ballahoo and back to The Main Line. Another junction also is on the branch that heads over Neville's Bridge to Great Waterton.

Rolling Stock

Locomotives

Stepney

Flora

Coaches and Trucks

Flora's Tram Coach

Appearances

• Television Series

Thomas & Friends Series 4 - Rusty to the Rescue and Thomas and Stepney Series 5 - A Better View for Gordon, Stepney Gets Lost, Thomas and the Rumours and Snow Jack and the Sodor Construction Company - The Tortoise and the Hare Series 7 - Trusty Rusty (stock footage) Series 9 - Thomas and the Rainbow and Thomas and the New Engine Series 11 - Wash Behind Your Buffers Series 12 - Steady Eddie, Toby's Special Surprise, Duncan and the Hot Air Balloon, James Works it Out, Tram Trouble, Gordon Takes a Shortcut, The Man in the Hills, Percy and the Bandstand and Best Friends Series 16 - Don't Bother Victor! Series 18 - Duncan and the Grumpy Passenger and Duncan the Humbug Series 19 - Snow Place Like Home Specials 2008 - The Great Discovery 2012 - Blue Mountain Mystery Songs Series 10 - Doing it Right

Trivia

• The branch line is loosely based on the real life Bluebell Railway.
• Another name of this line is 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.

Stepney's Branch Line

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