Rails & Ales at the Watercress Line

9/9/23

A new event at the Watercress Line featuring beer and a diesel loco, two of my hobbies.

I caught the 1045 service.

train in Alton station siding

ready to depart from platform 3

I got the train at Ropley and headed towards the Engineering Shed.

7 beers were here.

I had one of each of the Little Monster beers.

Some photos of the yard

and inside the shed

I then got the steam set to Alresford where I had a half of Alfreds - Purple Reign from the West Country Buffet and the same train up to Medstead station.

A short walk took me to the Triple fff brewery.

The Offf The Rails bar serves mostly Triple fff beers unsurprisingly.

After a couple of beers here, I headed back to Medstead station. My plan being to photograph the station and then the diesel set arrriving from Alton. However the class 47 was having problems and it had been decided to terminate it at Medstead and send it back to Alresford, changing the loco to a class 20 there. No time for photos as the train was about to depart.

At Ropley the class 47 was detached

 and a class 20 attached

I then got the steam set back to Alton.