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locos working really hard up long steep gradients
The Watercress Line steam railway in Hampshire: friendliest steam railway
people in UK make every visit a pleasure
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| 3rd June 2004:
More cameos from the Watercress Week celebrations |
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| The 'barrel organ', more piano than organ, works through pins in a yard-long,
foot-diameter, wooden drum. It plays eight different tunes.
To give the organ grinder a rest, your webmaster had a go for a while (playing music by handle!) during a lunch-break from footplate duty on Bodmin Five photos (29th May 2004): Henry O'Dwyer |
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| All part of the National Watercress Week celebrations at MHR,
the demonstrations of ways with watercress (and the free watercress
distribution!) were a big hit between the Morris
Dancing performances, Ropley Shed Tours, and Mr
Wizard's entertainment
Photo (29th May 2004): Ken Grinstead |
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Links to other pages
Some MHR web-movies - see and hear the action, normally the same day! Photos and reports of our recent main line excursions e.g. NewsExpress gathers news from all the heritage railway websites
Guide to the Mid-Hants Railway You get more of everything at the Mid-HantsAlresford stationWednesday Gang How many people are looking at this website? Latest record figures About 450 webpages worldwide have links to this website: Current list |
| If you are a regular browser
of this website and wish you too could join in all
this manifest fun, why not become truly a part of MHR by:
(1) Becoming a member of the Mid-Hants Railway Preservation Society (ideal if you really do live too far away to offer practical help); (2) Helping us finance the restoration of our recently purchased Black Five; (3) Lending a hand* (if you are over 12 and under 85 years of age, and live near enough); (4) Being a customer: Buy a ticket to explore our line for a day, come to one of our special events, do a footplate course, take a ride on an excursion, treat Mum to Sunday lunch on The Countryman, join real ale enthusiasts on a RAT, or give any of these as a present. *As an enjoyable hobby it even beats mucking about in boats! ... tw |
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The Watercress Line,
The Railway Station, Alresford, Hampshire, England, SO24 9JG |
