A heritage steam railway that has been partly closed for a year will re-launch next month with a visit from the Flying Scotsman. Mid-Hants Railway's Watercress Line was shut at Alton, Hampshire ...

Bosses at Mid Hants Railway, which runs the line, say the locomotive’s visit will be hugely important in helping to attract more visitors. The Flying Scotsman was built in 1923 and became the ...

Celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh was joined by the Flying Scotsman for the official reopening of a heritage steam railway. News you can trust since 1877. Sign In. Subscribe.

The Mid Hants Railway Ltd, famously nicknamed ‘The Watercress Line’ in the early 20th century for its role in transporting the crop to London, ...

On the Mid Hants Railway website it adds: ‘It's an incredible light show on and in a steam train, consisting of 13,174 fully controllable colour mixing LED lights and LED wristbands.

It closed in 1973 but was fully reinstated under the Mid-Hants Railway in 1985 and attracts more than 125,000 visitors a year. Getty Images. Flying Scotsman facts.

Mid-Hants Railway's Watercress Line was shut at Alton, Hampshire, for almost a year while Butts Bridge was replaced. The record-breaking Flying Scotsman locomotive travelled along the full 10 ...