Our highly-trained and experienced staff are here to help you: who does what at Alresford
by John Sanders (who also took the photos)
Page now under revision due to staff changes (2009)
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Louise Mackay - Marketing Manager Louise joined the Watercress Line in October 2002 to organise and maintain publicity and general advertising. She has spent the past five years in London studying for her degree in Publishing and Marketing, then organising advertising and marketing for a recruitment consultancy. All those adverts you see in your local papers for Thomas the Tank weeks and Santa trains etc., have been organized by Louise
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 Anna & Louise
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| Alistair Jeffery - Chief Booking Clerk
and Registrar (Share Register) One of Alistair's ambitions on retirement was to become a volunteer on a preserved steam railway so in 1986 one of his ambitions was fulfilled when he joined the Watercress Line for his first day of training. Through the years, Alistair climbed the ladder to reach his present position. On answering an internal advert in 1994, he took on the job of permanent registrar. In his National Service with the Royal Engineers, he was a Rail Transport Officer at Hanover. Nearer home, during his training he learnt how to blow up railway lines at Liss. It was therefore thought prudent to confine him behind the small glass panel of the booking office! Before his retirement, Alistair was a teacher of geography at Southampton Technical College. Another hidden talent was his skill in making marmalade to a secret family recipe. Back in the days when the Watercress Line held craft days, Alistair made jars of marmalade that sold under the name of "The Registrar's All Day Breakfast Marmalade". No talent or skill is wasted. You can still get the All Day Breakfast in the West Country Buffet, but not the marmalade |
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| Brian Instrall & Terry Smith - Information Office This pair of volunteers is known as the Dynamic Duo and Trains-R-us. The association is not new for Brian and Terry. They worked together for twenty years for the Independent Broadcasting Authority until they retired, Brian in 1989 and Terry in 2002. Now they field queries and questions personally and on the telephone in the Information Office on Wednesdays. They have a great knowledge of the line but they do claim one bane in their lives at the Watercress Line - lost toys. This happens when children reclaim their toys and the duo can't play with them any more |
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| Hazel Dolton It was one of those beautiful mornings in March 2003 when I found this lady working on the gardens on Alresford station. Hazel helps to maintain the gardens and other floral decorations there, including the Station Master's garden by the signal box. Before retiring, Hazel worked in local government at Richmond-upon-Thames, then became a volunteer on the Watercress Line about five years ago. Her husband Brian was already a volunteer so if you can't beat them, join them .... |
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| Brian Dolton Brian has been working on and off on the Watercress Line for some 15 years, but when he retired from British Airways he joined the railway, helping in the West Country Buffet and on the buffet on the service trains. He also willingly gives his time as a co-editor of the Mid-Hants News, the house magazine of the Watercress Line |
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