What is so special about the Chesham Carriages?
The coaches, built by the Metropolitan Railway in 1898-1900, ended up operating on the Metropolitan’s “Chesham” branch, and when withdrawn in 1960 they were the oldest coaches running in the country. During the early and mid 1960s they carried most of our passengers on the Bluebell. These four coaches have been restored by volunteers to as close to their original condition as possible, and make a unique century-old train of matching “close-coupled” coaches. The web pages about the restoration of these coaches were the first such pages to be published on the Internet.
