MAKING history as the first resident DEMU on a railway that was once famously steam only, Class 207 ‘Thumper’No. 1305 arrived on the Bluebell Railway on January 19 and a week later had made the journey to Horsted Keynes station under its own power.
Since it fell to the Beeching Axe on October 28, 1963, Horsted Keynes station has seen an almost exclusive steam presence on heritage service trains stopping there.
While in more recent years the railway
