Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends will be coming to the Watercress Line just in time for the Easter holidays. 2020 marks Thomas' 75th anniversary ... also known as the Mid Hants Railway.

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 ...

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.

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.

The Mid Hants Railway will continue its summer gala on Saturday (July 8) and Sunday (July 9) which recalls the last days of the Southern Steam network in 1967.

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.

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 ...

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 ...