Many of our residents will recall the time when our small North Hampshire market town was well served by public transport, boasting two railway lines and rather more buses than we have today.
As part of our community’s contribution to the national Railway 200 celebrations, Whitchurch History Society would like to share some of those memories and have delved into their photo archive to produce this exhibition, with an introduction written by former Chairman John Mariner who had a lifelong passion for rail travel.
The exhibition celebrates the story of both of the town’s stations; Whitchurch Station on the busy West of England line and Whitchurch Town Station on the former, much-lamented Didcot-Newbury-Southampton line… remembering a time when you could still travel by rail to Newbury and Winchester.
This is also another chance to see the lovely steam train artwork produced by the children at the Montessori Nursery who have been learning about the history of the DNSR line.
Sally Mariner has kindly donated magazines and railway books to the exhibition, that were collected by her husband John over the past 50 years. For anyone interested in railways and steam engines these are an excellent read and any donations received will go to support Whitchurch in Bloom’s continuing work at Whitchurch Railway Station.
Exhibition opening times:
Monday – Thursday 9am – 2pm (Thursday 17th July 12.30 – 2pm)
Friday – 9am – 1.30pm
