Stepney's Branch Line

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 Great Waterton. Due to a vast amount of bluebell flowers beside the tracks, the line is nicknamed the "Bluebell Railway".

Engines
Stepney and possibly Flora, are currently the only locomotives known to work on this line; however, Thomas has been seen travelling up and down it numerous times and other North Western Railway engines sometimes use this line to get to Great Waterton instead of using the Main Line.

Route
The line begins north-east of Crovan's Gate, at the Transfer Yards on the Norramby Branch Line and travels up to the Skarloey Railway Depot and Mr. Percival's House, where it runs next to the Skarloey Railway until it splits at Bluebell Valley Station. The two lines reconverge to go through two parallel tunnels, before the branch line splits up at a junction with one line going to the Rolling River Bridge and the other running past Green Hills Junction until the line finally stops at Great Waterton at a spur of the Main Line.

Appearances
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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
 * 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
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 * 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.

2014 Map
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