Join one of our intriguing steam hauled murder mystery dining trains here at the Watercress Line.  The Police don't have a clue, do you?

SATURDAY 5th MAY - MURDER AT ST VERNON'S

It's 1949.  The war's been over for 4 years, but rationing's still in place.  St Vernon's Boarding School for Young Ladies is near to the village of Little Striving.  Academically the school has little to recommend it, and it is used as a dumping ground for the more difficult to place girls from wealthy families.

Headmaster, Mr Granville Stickler, has been at the school for many years, but over the past few months, has become rather vague, which causes great concern to another long-term member of staff, Matron, Miss Beatrice Dose.  St Vernon's is lucky to have a fe good staff members these include: English teacher Miss Vita Prout and Mr Nigel Rogers teaching art.  Wally Fremantle the caretaker/gardener and general jobs worth is a thorn in everyone's side.  We're going to meet a couple of the girls: the aristocratic but behaviourally challenged Millicent Marshall and horsy, nice but dim, Angela Frobisher-Stokes.  We join the staff and girls of St Vernon's outside the headmaster's study, on a weekday morning sometime after the end of term......

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SATURDAY 4th AUGUST - A FETE WORSE THAN DEATH ! 

Step back in time to the summer of 1956.  The St Jude's summer fete is about to begin.  Mrs Robinson's jam has pre-sold like hotcakes and the hotcakes didn't turn up!  There is already a queue for the 'Bat The Rat' and Mrs Davenport has sworn to kill her husband if she catches him tinkering with Jennifer Claytons coconuts again.

In anticipation of a wonderful afternoon an innocent carnival atmosphere abounds.  However a sinister plot is unfolding - Roger Smallpiece, the new Vicar, is about to open the fete, the blood curdling cry of 'Murder' is heard......

But who is the victim?

Who is the murderer?

But more importantly, who has won the picnic hamper in the raffle??

All will be revealed before the bunting is down at St Jude's, in a Fete Worse Than Death!

FARES

£75.00 per person (tables must be booked in multiples of 2).  Each couple will receive a complimentary bottle of wine with their meal.

ITINERARY

6.30pm - Guests arrive for pre-dinner drinks at the Old Goods Shed, Alresford Station

6.50pm - Guests are invited to take their seats by our MC who will give an introduction to the evening ahead.

7pm - The events leading up to and including the dastardly crime!!!

7.20pm - Guests join the train

7.30pm - The train departs Alresford station and your three course meal is served.  During the course of the meal the actors will mingle amongst you to be cross examined - try out your crime busting abilities to identify the murderer.

10.30pm - Return to Alresford station.  You will be asked to take your seats back in the theatre in the Old Goods Shed.  There you will witness the gripping conclusion and the winning team or teams will be announced.

11pm - The evening draws to a close.

DIETARY REQUIREMENTS

Please let us know at the time of booking if you or any member of your party has any specific dietary requirements or food allergies e.g Vegetarian, vegan, unable to eat any particular food such as nuts, mushrooms, shellfish, red meat etc.