"the newly constructed Carriage and Wagon workshop at Ropley station. Watercress Line The Watercress Line is the marketing name of the Mid-Hants Railway, a heritage railway in Hampshire, England, running from New Alresford to Alton where it connects to the National Rail network. The line gained its popular name in the days that it was used to transport locally grown watercress to markets in London. The railway currently operates regular scheduled services, along with dining trains, real ale trains and numerous special events throughout the year. In 1861, the Alton, Alresford and Winchester Railway Company was authorised to build a"
"touted ""Plant Steamship Line — Ships ply between the ports of 3 great nations: United States (Port Tampa, Key West, Mobile, Boston), England (Dominion of Canada), Spain (Cuba)."" Plant System The Plant System named after its owner, Henry B. Plant, was a system of railroads and steamboats in the U.S. South, taken over by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902. The original line of the system was the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, running across southern Georgia. The Plant Investment Company was formed in 1882 to lease and buy other railroads and expand the system. Other major lines incorporated"
"Plant System The Plant System named after its owner, Henry B. Plant, was a system of railroads and steamboats in the U.S. South, taken over by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902. The original line of the system was the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, running across southern Georgia. The Plant Investment Company was formed in 1882 to lease and buy other railroads and expand the system. Other major lines incorporated into the system include the Savannah and Charleston Railroad and the Brunswick and Western Railroad. The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad went bankrupt on January 1, 1877, and Henry"
"meant that the Watercress Line was no longer part of a through route; it became necessary to change at Alton. Electrification of the line from London to Southampton occurred in 1967, which further affected the economics of the Mid-Hants route. The line became part of the Southern Railway in 1923 and then part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948. It survived the Beeching Axe in 1963, but was eventually closed by British Railways in February 1973. During final years of operation under British Rail, passenger train services were operated by Class 205 (""2H"") two carriage diesel-electric multiple"
"been badly damaged by fire, and the Spa Valley Railway is home to two T stock coaches. Metropolitan Railway The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs. Its first line connected the main-line railway termini at , , and King's Cross to the City. The first section was built beneath the New Road using the ""cut-and-cover"" method between Paddington and King's Cross and in tunnel and"
"and Wagon Shed and the remedial work to the Boiler Shop will be completed by February 2011. The knock-on effect of the loss of the facility will put restoration work back by two years. The Carriage & Wagon shop has now been rebuilt, the Boiler Shop repaired, and restoration work has recommenced. Incidents at the Watercress Line The Watercress Line is a heritage railway in Hampshire, England, running from New Alresford to Alton where it connects to the National Rail network. The line has four stations and operates scheduled and special services. The line was opened as the Mid-Hants Railway"
"Western Railway lines at Alton and Winchester. It was opened on 2 October 1865 as the Mid-Hants Railway. Trains were operated by the London & South Western Railway which eventually purchased the Mid-Hants Railway Company in 1884. Stations were initially constructed at Itchen Abbas, Ropley and Alresford. The station at was already in existence. The station at Medstead and Four Marks was added in 1868. Just outside this station, the line is at its highest point ( above sea level) having risen from Alresford ( above sea level) and descending to Alton ( above sea level). The section of line"
"registered charity. The Mid-Hants Railway plays host to a large collection of steam and diesel locomotives, passenger carriages and restored wagons, most of which are from the 1920s to 1960s period. Steam locomotives operated include Bulleid Pacifics of the Merchant Navy and West Country, SR Lord Nelson class, Schools Class, S15, BR Standard Class 4, 9F, LMS Ivatt Tank & Black 5. Operated alongside these are a number of diesel locomotives including Class 37s, a Class 50, Class 08 shunters, a Class 11 shunter, and a Class 205 ""Hampshire"" multiple unit. The Watercress Line has four stations on the site"
"Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company The Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was a Birmingham, England, based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons. It was not part of the Midland Railway. Its products also included trams and even military tanks. It has made trains for railways in the UK and overseas, including the London Underground. After a series of takeovers, its works at Washwood Heath in Birmingham became part of Metro Cammell and are now part of the Alstom group. In 1845, Joseph Wright, a London coach builder, leased land in Saltley, Birmingham with the intention of building a"
"Middleton Railway The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working public railway, situated in the English city of Leeds. It was founded in 1758 and is now a heritage railway, run by volunteers from The Middleton Railway Trust Ltd. since 1960. The railway operates passenger services at weekends and on public holidays over approximately of track between its headquarters at Moor Road, in Hunslet, and Park Halt, on the outskirts of Middleton Park. Coal has been worked in Middleton since the 13th century, from bell pits, gin pits and later ""day level"" or adits. Anne Leigh, heiress to the"
"Mid-Kent line The Mid-Kent line (also referred to as the Hayes line by train operators, official bodies and the general public) is a British railway line running from Courthill Loop North junction (just south of Lewisham station) to Hayes railway station in the London Borough of Bromley. Despite its name, none of the line is in the present-day county of Kent. All services along the line are operated by Southeastern. The standard off-peak service is two trains per hour (tph) each way between London Charing Cross and Hayes, non-stop between and , and two tph between London Cannon Street and"
"winding down its Mark 1 fleet started to purchase stock from other operators and began a programme of rebuilding and overhaul for their Mark 1s. Very few coaches from the old Southern Region found a preservation home on the Mid-Hants with most coming via the Eastern Region and some as far as Scotland arriving on the line still displaying the former owner's ScotRail branding. The Mid-Hants standardized on BR Southern green for all of its home based fleet, a contrast to the 1980s, when the whole period of British Railways steam era liveries were in use. Today only one or"
"Cemetery. The disused graveyard at St Pancras Old Church was left alone for over thirty years, until the building of the Midland Railway required the removal of many of the graves. Thomas Hardy, then a junior architect and later a novelist and poet, was involved in this work. Particularly, he placed a number of gravestones around a tree, now known as ""the Hardy Tree"". The cemetery was disturbed again in 2002-03 by the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, but much more care was given to the removal of remains than in the 19th century. The name St Pancras"
"are not followed by the management of the line. For a period in the 1990s to early 2000s, the railway invested heavily in British Railways Mark 2 stock whilst significantly reducing its Mark 1 fleet. These vehicles were used on the railway's regular services and on mainline steam charters (known at the time as 'The Green Train') but after a change in direction, both with the abandonment of the charter business and the preference to Mark 1 stock, these more modern coaches fell from favour and were later sold en-bloc to another operator. The Mid-Hants then after many years of"
"the old link from to Elmers End and avoid the railway bottleneck at East Croydon. Mid-Kent line The Mid-Kent line (also referred to as the Hayes line by train operators, official bodies and the general public) is a British railway line running from Courthill Loop North junction (just south of Lewisham station) to Hayes railway station in the London Borough of Bromley. Despite its name, none of the line is in the present-day county of Kent. All services along the line are operated by Southeastern. The standard off-peak service is two trains per hour (tph) each way between London Charing"
"streets throughout the central business district including and surrounding the ""Loop"". London Post Office Railway The Post Office Railway, known as Mail Rail since 1987, is a narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company, it operated from 1927 until 2003. A museum within the former railway was opened in September 2017. The line ran from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Head District Sorting Office at"
"during electrification work on the latter. List of named passenger trains of the United Kingdom The Inter-City The Inter-City was a British named express passenger train operated by the Western Region of British Railways (WR) between and via . It connected England's first and second cities, London and Birmingham. Introduced in 1950, the Inter-City can claim to be the origin of all later usages of the railway term ""InterCity"" (with or without a hyphen) worldwide. In the winter 1959-60 timetable, the train became just one of an hourly all-day restaurant-car service between Paddington and Wolverhampton, as the WR service was"
"towns. (Strawberry farming became such a pivotal part of the local economy following the construction of the Meon Valley Railway that the railway became nicknamed the ""Strawberry Line"". During the picking season special trains known as ""strawberry specials"" were laid on, carrying entire trainloads of strawberries to market.) Likewise, bulk goods such as coal and beer could for the first time be shipped cheaply to Droxford and the surrounding villages. The station also proved popular with spectators visiting the Hambledon Hunt's racecourse, approximately from the station, and with people travelling to the market in Alton, a service which proved so"
"Hatch"" on 1 October 1876; to ""New Southgate for Colney Hatch"" on 1 March 1883; to ""New Southgate and Friern Barnet"" on 1 May 1923; and finally to ""New Southgate"" on 18 March 1971, The GNR came under the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) after ""Grouping"" in 1923, before British Railways took over upon nationalisation in 1948. WAGN (an acronym of West Anglia, Great Northern) operated the service from 1997 to 2006. In autumn 2008, a self-service ticket machine widening payment methods to accept cash and debit/credit cards, was installed at the eastern street-level entrance. An older PERTIS machine"
"Robin Hood (train) The Robin Hood is one of the four flagship named passenger trains operated by East Midlands Trains inherited from Midland Mainline in the UK. The first use of the ""Robin Hood"" name was on 2 February 1959 when British Railways gave the name to the 0815 from Nottingham to London. Unusually, this avoided Leicester and stopped only at Manton. In the reverse direction however, it also stopped at Bedford, Wellingborough and Kettering. The train lost its name at the end of the summer 1962 timetable. As of 2016, there are two trains named the """"Robin Hood"""": Neither"
"Hastings line The Hastings line is a secondary railway line in Kent and East Sussex, England, linking with the main town of , and from there into London via and . Although primarily carrying passengers, the railway serves a gypsum mine which is a source of freight traffic. Southeastern operates passenger trains on the line. The railway was constructed by the South Eastern Railway in the early 1850s across the difficult terrain of the High Weald. Supervision of the building of the line was lax, enabling contractors to skimp on the lining of the tunnels. These deficiencies showed up after"
"Council for a peppercorn rent. It has been one of Leeds many public parks since 1919. The area contains a large number of ""shaft mounds"" which are thought to mark sites of medieval coal mines. Survey work was done in 2007–2008 to discover more about the mounds, which seem to represent various mining techniques, including bell pits, cog and rung and whim gins. The archaeologist, Martin Roe led the team from the Friends of Middleton Park and the South Leeds Archaeology Group. Park Halt is the Middleton Railway's terminal station on the edge of the park. In 2008 Lottery funding"
"to London. The Watercress Line is now a charity largely operated by volunteers, and best known for its events such as War on the Line, and most popularly, Thomas The Tank Engine. The origins of the Watercress Line date back to 1861, the year in which Parliament granted consent for what was then known as the 'Alton, Alresford and Winchester Railway'. Four years later the Mid Hants Railway opened, and the train service continued until the line was closed in 1973. Then in 1977 the line was partially re-opened, in 1983 it was extended further, and in 1985 it was"
"London Post Office Railway The Post Office Railway, known as Mail Rail since 1987, is a narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company, it operated from 1927 until 2003. A museum within the former railway was opened in September 2017. The line ran from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Head District Sorting Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of . It had eight"
"London fruit and vegetable markets, such as Covent Garden, now based at Nine Elms, and Borough Market, as well as the former Stratford market and Spitalfields wholesale market which moved to Leyton in 1991. Parsnips were sent by special rail-wagon direct to the catering industry in different parts of the country. It was highly unusual for this crop to be grown in a heavy clay soil. However, Spencer-Thomas designed his own parsnip lifter and harvester, mounted on a Fordson Major half-track tractor, which could lift the crop out of the soil even under the most difficult wet and frosty conditions."
"The Inter-City The Inter-City was a British named express passenger train operated by the Western Region of British Railways (WR) between and via . It connected England's first and second cities, London and Birmingham. Introduced in 1950, the Inter-City can claim to be the origin of all later usages of the railway term ""InterCity"" (with or without a hyphen) worldwide. In the winter 1959-60 timetable, the train became just one of an hourly all-day restaurant-car service between Paddington and Wolverhampton, as the WR service was ramped up to compensate for the absence of trains on the West Coast Main Line"
"1950 as the name of a train running between London Paddington and Wolverhampton Low Level. This was part of an overall policy of introducing new train names in the post World War II period. The name was applied to the business express which ran from London in the morning and returned in the afternoon, and became part of the railway lore of the West Midlands. West Midlands residents always believed that it was the success of this one train that led to the adoption of the name as a British Rail brand in 1966. This belief was supported by the"
"locomotives. In the mid-1960s, British Rail introduced the ""Freightliner"" brand, for the new train services carrying containers between dedicated terminals around the rail network. The Rev. W. Awdry also named freight trains, coining the term ""The Flying Kipper"" for the overnight express fish train that appeared in his stories in The Railway Series books. Airport trains transport people between terminals within an airport complex. Heritage trains are operated by volunteers, often railfans, as a tourist attraction. Usually trains are formed from historic vehicles retired from national commercial operation. Mine trains are operated in large mines and carry both workers and"
"as footpaths (e.g. near Wharram Percy). At Malton the former line of the railway influences modern street plans such as the rear boundary to Parliament Avenue. A fraction of the former line has been completely developed over such as at the housing development around Bracken Road in Driffield. On 15 September 1948 a passenger train consisting of a tank engine and two coaches travelling collided at an accommodation crossing with a Ford lorry carrying Poles and Hungarians going to work on a farm. As a result of the lorry running into the path of the train, three of the lorry"
"(the main line of the Plant System). From Folkston, Georgia south to Jacksonville, Florida, the line was part of the Waycross and Florida Railway and the East Florida Railway. Those two lines, which were chartered by Henry Plant in 1880, began service in 1881. The middle segment of the Nahunta Subdivision was built as the Plant System's Folkston Cutoff in 1901. It was built to provide a shortcut and bypass to Waycross, Georgia. In 1902, the Plant System became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, with what is now the Nahunta Subdivision becoming part of the Coast Line's main"
"Cuckoo Line The Cuckoo Line is an informal name for the now defunct railway service which linked Polegate and Eridge in East Sussex, England, from 1880 to 1968. It was nicknamed the Cuckoo Line by drivers, from a tradition observed at the annual fair at Heathfield, a station on the route. At the fair, which was held each April, a lady would release a cuckoo from a basket, it being supposedly the 'first cuckoo of spring'. The railway line served the following Sussex communities: Polegate, Hailsham, Hellingly, Horam for Waldron, Heathfield, Mayfield, Rotherfield and Eridge. Services continued through Eridge and"
"Henry B. Plant of the Plant System and merged with the Savannah, Florida & Western. Together the railroads formed a continuous mainline from Savannah to Montgomery, colloquially known as the ""bow line"" due to its distinctive shape. The Atlantic Coast Line gained control of the Plant System on July 1, 1902. Ownership would remain with the ACL until its 1967 merger with Seaboard Air Line to form the Seaboard Coast Line and the mergers into the Seaboard System and CSX Transportation in 1983 and 1986 respectively. With the exception of the abandoned Luverne branch, all of the former Alabama Midland"
"Mid Hants Railway were running their own charter train company known as ""Daylight Railtours"" and it was decided for it to be certified for mainline use to work a couple of smaller trains around the south of England. Due to its limited water capacity of 1,350 gallons it wasn't able to stray too far from its home at the Mid Hants and it wasn't able to work the normal 10-11 coach trains that Daylight Railtours usually ran. It recently returned to service from an overhaul but hasn't been certified for mainline use and isn't expected to be mainline certified again."