He was bought by the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society and arrived on the railway on 17th May, making him the first standard gauge steam locomotive in the United Kingdom to be preserved. During his last working years, Stepney worked on the Hayling Island branch line, until he was taken out of service in 1960 and placed on an out-of-use siding. Stepney was built by Brighton Works in 1875 and was rebuilt into an A1X in 1912. In 1969, he saw Neville and Rosie at East Grinstead station and greet them and suggested them to change their liveries. Towards the end of his stay, he returned to Tidmouth and on his last day double-headed the Express with Duck after Class 40 had failed. In 1962, Stepney came on loan to Sodor and worked briefly with Duck at Tidmouth before working on Thomas' Branch line, which during the time he caught a cricket ball in one of his trucks while passing the Elsbridge Cricket Field. Stepney was the first engine to be rescued by the Bluebell Railway. He arrived on the Bluebell Railway on 17th May 1960, after the railway's founder Bernard Holden MBE helped to save the line for preservation. Stepney was built at Brighton Works in Brighton, England in 1875 as an LB&SCR A1 class engine and later rebuilt as an A1X in 1912.
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