Re: Review of each Heritage railway

T wrote:
I have just returned from one of the few trips I am able to make to a heritage railway and found the experience of the one I chose very disappointing. Having checked the website and found a good selection of rolling stock that I was interested in I found that this was not accessible and every aspect of it seemed to be a lesson in how not to do things. After a long car journey I only spent just over an hour there, some of which was trying unsuccessfully to be served in their inefficient restaurant.
This is a definite never to return but not wanting to make a similar mistake I would be interested in any website that reviewed heritage railways.
Does anyone know of one?
Thanks



Whilst I agree that it is very disappointing to find 'poor' museums...

....and there are many (including biggies) with large gaps in what they do (for example exhibits with no writing or explanation, or for example no clue about the art and importance of encouraging children, and many, many other shambolickisms) ...

....they have to cater (literally) for all sorts of visitors who may have only come on a coach trip for a day out, are deaf, not interested in ironmongery, can't walk distances or up and down stairs, have small children, have teenagers,... ...oh yes, and the aficionados.

In my experience curatorial staff are usually more than pleased to discuss their collection but they're often multi-tasking and need to be loosened-up. Their speciality might be, say, signalling so don't expect them to have any clue about diesel locos. Be a good patient _listener_ and you should get as much of their enthusiasm as they can spare in the circumstances.


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Peter 'Prof' Fox
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