The MHR today?

Hi Everyone.

What's your view of the MHR today? I need open and honest thoughts. warts and all! I'm trying not to make a dissension based on history, and not facts.

 

These people like it:
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attrac..._Watercress_Line-Alton_Hampshire_England.html

Will

 

`I was thinking from an inside perspective, not as a visitor.

 

Inside views should stay inside.
On all railways there are internal arguments/discussions/disagreements etc and generally they should remain from away from public forums.

 

So, haw do I find out what is really going on? I can't spend weeks talking to people. If you won't post here, PM me please!

 

Why? Why would I or anyone else involved in the railway today, share with you in open forum our thoughts about the railway? To what purpose do you wish to put the information? Why do you need it? If you want to find out what the railway is like today, from the inside, you're most welcome to come down to Ropley and see for yourself. If you PM me first I will happily show you around and answer your questions.

 

Go and get your hands dirty on site and then you can find out the real stories from the real railwaymen and not the arm chair experts

 

To repeat...why do you need to know what is really going on? Idle curiosity? Well you'd get a flavour from discussions here and on other forums that should satisfy that, so what is your purpose, and why is it so urgent you cant talk to people?

 

you have no idea!

 

Confused....

 

Steve I think the point that Reading General is making is that both he and PolSteam have put in many many hours on railways. It is a fair point, but I still think that your point that the best way to find out about the railway of today is to visit it, is a good one.

 

and I'd agree with you.

Polsteam was one of the earliest volunteers at the MHR and no doubt will be very offended to be called an armchair enthusiast

 

I don't suppose Steve was intending to offend, and in fairness PolSteam's own profile describes him as retired from active volunteering. Anyway the point is that asking the question that PolSteam has, in the way that he has, is unlikely to get the response he wants.

 

Tough - it sounds like he's digging for dirt. Maybe, maybe not, but he can hardly be surprised if others call him out on it.

 

My Advice, go have a visit, Fleet isnt that far from the line, im sure that some who are there today, who were there when you were would love to see you and share memories, its all about moving on, people have moved on, the place will still be the same place but improved, better facilities , as in all walks of life, you will get differing opinions. best to look with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, make up your own mind with what you see and hear, not based on what others want you to think. and for the record, if i lived nearer, Hastings is far to far, i would be back there myself, whilst i loved my time with the Kesr, my heart has always been in Hampshire.

 

Bullseye!

 

I've found your posts on the early days of the MHR interesting and I respect anyone who has put in so much effort in the past.

However, times change, people move on and I think so should you. IMO the MHR is a great place to volunteer at and to visit, it is a different place to what it was 30+ years ago with a dedicated management and workforce. I don't know what you 'need' these warts for for but I think you will be dissapointed to find that there are none to be found.