15th Oct 2019
The hugely popular ‘Santa Specials’ event at the Watercress Line is already selling fast, with some trains fully booked - visitors are being encouraged not to delay purchasing their tickets. The steam locomotive will chuff into town this Christmas, giving ...
8th Oct 2019
The Mid Hants Railway has a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced business leader to join The Watercress Line as General Manager. The job description can be found here. To apply or to request an informal discussion please contact Simon Baggott ...
8th Oct 2019
The countdown is on for The Watercress Line welcoming witches and wizards of all ages to its Wizard Weekend this Halloween. Inviting visitors to make magic and mischief and dress up as a Halloween spook, the event returns with an exciting ...
26th Sep 2019
With great regret we have concluded that we must cancel the Walk the Line event scheduled for later this year. Given the inaccessibility off the line and restrictions on how we could deal with the potential for injuries we have decided that ...
17th Sep 2019
16 September 2019 The Watercress Line is inviting visitors to experience its Main Viewing Gallery and Carriage Viewing Gallery following its refurbishment at Ropley station, Hampshire. The Canadian Pacific project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, offers visitors a host of ...
3rd Sep 2019
Here in marketing we're currently making a short advert about, you guessed it, volunteers! We want to know why YOU take the time out of your busy schedules to help the railway thrive and bring joy to the thousands of people ...
22nd Aug 2019
The Watercress Line is calling witches and wizards of all ages to come and make magic and mischief this Halloween with the return of the railway’s popular Wizard Weekend. The event returns with an exciting array ...
15th Aug 2019
Below is a poem written by a young volunteer called Savannah from a Heritage Lottery Funded project called Memories Brought Home. Please see below her beautiful poem about the Watercress Line: Steam Leviathans Hiss, hiss, hiss—! Ripping through the foliage ...
14th Aug 2019
The Watercress Line has been included in Lonely Planet’s list of UK top experiences in a new ranked list of the 500 most memorable, beautiful, surprising and compelling experiences to be had across Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. ...
16th Jul 2019
Dear Members and Shareholders Please note that we will have to delay this years AGM from 14th September to a date later in the year to be confirmed. As yet, we have been unable to finalise the accounts for Mid Hants Railway ...
3rd Jul 2019
In February 2018, MHRPS introduced a new scheme for collecting online charity donations called MyDonate, operated by BT. This has proven to be very successful for MHRPS – in round numbers, during the last 17 months we have received 400 donations from 190 different people, amounting ...
20th Jun 2019
19 June 2019 The world’s favourite blue tank engine will be putting smiles on children’s faces across the region as the hugely popular Day Out With Thomas returns to the Watercress Line this summer. The heritage railway will play host ...
14th Jun 2019
The Watercress Line’s National Lottery Heritage Fund supported Canadian Pacific restoration project has spent £46,000 to improve the visitor experience at its Ropley station. The improvements include new interpretation panels, to be installed in the viewing galleries and outside around ...
11th Jun 2019
MHRPS has won a £1,000 Movement for Good award thanks to nominations from the public. MHRPS was nominated to win a £1,000 boost as part of specialist insurer Ecclesiastical's Movement for Good awards, which is giving £1million to charities this ...
24th May 2019
24 May 2019 This June marks the start of the 75th anniversary of D-Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy and with it, a momentous occasion to commemorate peace, liberty and reconciliation at Hampshire’s heritage railway. Travel back in time at ...
22nd May 2019
LAUNCH DATE: Sunday 2nd June (subject to change if anything untoward is discovered). Click here to book tickets 18 years ago in 2001 the last fire was dropped from 30506. There followed a couple of years of negotiations for new contracts with the ...