22nd Dec 2020
It comes as something of a relief, with an ample amount of confusion, to find myself sitting down to write the December carriage workshop blog. I’m always a little surprised to find another year has gone by, and this particular ...
9th Nov 2020
Carriage workshop blog, November 2020 The carriage workshop is in production line mode at the moment, involved in a very different sort of screen time to that which has swept the nation over the last few years! We are working flat ...
23rd Oct 2020
Well, what can I say other than welcome back? Before we go any further, I’d like to thank on behalf of all of us, everybody who has stepped up to the plate during this crazy year, especially our heroes in ...
3rd Apr 2020
An exciting landmark in the life of the Watercress Line happened at the turn of March, when the first part of the Canadian Pacific Project was launched into traffic in the shape of Bulleid open third carriage, No. 1456. Built in December 1947 ...
5th Mar 2020
What shall we do now…? Carriage workshop blog, March 2020 Well, there we have it. Passengers have travelled in Bulleid open third 1456 for the first time since the mid to late 1960s! I don’t know exactly when 1456 went out of ...
12th Feb 2020
Things have been a bit up and down in the carriage workshop this month, literally! We’ve known for some time that we have a bit of remedial work to do on the bogies of Bulleid open-third 1456 before it can enter ...
30th Jan 2020
An exciting year ahead! Carriage workshop blog, January 2020 First off, a very happy new year to you all! This year is shaping up to be a very exciting one here at the Watercress Line, with our impending reopening through to Alton, a ...
5th Dec 2019
First out of the gate So there we have it, the race is done, and we have a winner! MK1 CK 16083 takes it by a nose (or more likely, a couple of months…) from its bitter rival, Bulleid carriage 1456, to win ...
13th Nov 2019
First off my apologies for the lateness of this official communication! I feel I have a reasonably good excuse, as my daughter was born in the middle of last month. Having taken a few days away from work to get well acquainted ...
6th Jun 2019
May 2019 update from the Carriage Shop
