Watercress Steam Railway - a trip with Boundless

Trips

Trips | Concord (W Surrey & N E Hants) District Branch

Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 6.30pm

Cost: £10

Bookable | Deadline: 04/06/2025

The Farnborough Group would like to invite you on a journey on the watercress steam train.

This is an annual event on The Watercress Line run every June by the Woking & Guildford Group of the railway. Oddfellows members and friends and family are invited.

The steam train leaves Alresford Station at 19.30 for a return trip over the line - some 20 hilly miles. The train returns to Alresford around 21.15.

A June evening travelling through the Hampshire countryside should be memorable on the newly restored Canadian Pacific Locomotive. There will be Railway shops open at stations as well as a buffet at Alresford.  There will also be a buffet on the train serving refreshments (cold) and beverages plus alcoholic drinks!

There should be a pre-drawn raffle for 6 separate footplate rides on the engine plus a run past at Ropley station where everybody detrains to watch the train steam through the station - a unique event in the Railway calendar.

There is parking available at Alresford Station.

Price just £10 per person with half price for those aged 12 and under - CASH PLEASE

All proceeds go to Railway Projects.

The Watercress Line The Railway Station, Station Road, New Alresford SO24 9JG

https://watercressline.co.uk/visit/how-to-find-us/ 

Booking essential - contact Steph by email or phone. 

For further information about this event please contact:

Mrs Steph Hopes
07312 115323

Event location

The Watercress Line , Station Road, New Alresford, SO24 9JG