Join the Travel Club as we depart for the Watercress Line in Hampshire.
The Mid Hants Railway started life in October 1865 as the Alton, Alresford & Winchester Railway and was intended to connect the existing lines at Alton and Winchester and provide an alternative route between London and Southampton.
The line was 17 miles long through an agricultural area with only Alresford as a town of any size on the route and was used not only for transporting locally produced watercress, from which it has derived its name, but also became particularly important during both World Wars for transporting military traffic between the army town of Aldershot and Southampton.
We include a return journey on the Watercress Line.
