Is there such a thing as too many heritage railways?

Maybe that's the real reason PH likes non-corridor coaches; so that passengers dressed up in modern clothes don't spoil the illusion...

 

It used to be said of the island, board the ferry and set your watch back 30 years, and im my early 20's it was exactly like that, get on a modern 4cig at Woking, get off at Portsmouth harbour board a proper boat , arrive at ryde get on a prewar tube train, to esplanade , then an 1950's Bristol single decker to Havenstreet . it was as if you whist crossing the solent had gone back in time

 

Ho, Ho (he says, hopefully not sarcastically). Part of my reason for liking non-corridor stock is that its use makes "heritage railway" rather less of an empty phrase than I believe it often is. Personally I would rather use the expression "tourist railway" as being more honest in most cases.

Paul H

 

If you are travelling thoroughly a mostly pastoral/wooded landscape rather than arable area then there isn't always a lot to say that that its 2017 not 19**

 

Just to say that much of the route between Ashey and Wootton passes through land which is either an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (A.ON.B.} or a Site of Special Scientific Interest (S.S.S.I.). Thus there is statutory protection in place. Indeed the railway actually owns a small area of S.S.S.I. coppice at Havenstreet which is being actively maintained as such partly for the edification of visitors.Thus a length of hedge has recently been layered in the traditional way.

Paul H.

 

Excellent! Well done IOWSR