点评:We booked up a compartment for max 6 people on the Watercress Line RAT (Real Ale Train) on Saturday evening 30 August. I will say we do find the cost for a private compartment quite steep at £200. In that price each person does get one FREE drinks voucher but this is only on Beer & Cider and NOT wine as we found out. After the free beer/cider you then have to buy your drinks and Beer is £4 , Cider £4. The evening does end up costing quite a bit but we all do love the old steam train and stepping back in time.
The RAT leaves Alton station promptly at 7pm and you can board the train from 6:30pm onwards. On this occasion the food carriage had a problem and we all had to get off and collect any pre-ordered food at Alresford in the canteen area. The food was actually superb. All six of us had the Meat Chilli with Rice & Nachos at £7:20 each. They did have other items for sale and we snapped up a couple of excellent sausage rolls at £3 each.
The train was not packed but there were enough of us to have a great evening which finally finishes back at Alton station at 10:30pm.
This year was there was a hic-cup as non of us were aware that the train line from Alton back towards London was closed and all trains had been cancelled. They laid a bus on but this was not going to arrive until 11:20pm. With that news we managed to order up a 6-seater Taxi which was waiting for us at Aldershot to take us back to Farnham/Aldershot.
If you have never been on the RAT it is worth going for the experience but just remember it can be costly and to be quite honest June/July would be better months to enjoy the countryside views etc.
翻译:我们预订了 8 月 30 日星期六晚上 Watercress Line RAT (Real Ale Train) 的最多可容纳 6 人的包厢。不得不说,200 英镑的私人包厢价格确实有点高。在这个价格中,每人确实可以得到一张免费饮料券,但我们发现这张券只能用于啤酒和苹果酒,不能用于葡萄酒。喝完免费的啤酒/苹果酒后,您需要购买饮料,啤酒 4 英镑,苹果酒 4 英镑。这个晚上确实花费不菲,但我们都喜欢老式蒸汽火车和回到过去的感觉。 RAT 于晚上 7 点准时从 Alton 车站出发,您可以从晚上 6:30 开始登车。这次餐车出了点问题,我们都不得不下车到 Alresford 食堂区取所有预订的食物。食物真的非常棒。我们六个人都点了肉辣椒配米饭和玉米片,每份 7.20 英镑。他们还有其他商品出售,我们抢购了几个很棒的香肠卷,每个3英镑。
火车上并不拥挤,但我们还是有足够的人度过一个美好的夜晚,最终于晚上10:30回到奥尔顿车站。
今年出了点小意外,因为我们都不知道从奥尔顿回伦敦的火车线路已经关闭,所有列车都被取消了。他们安排了一辆巴士,但要到晚上11:20才能到。得知这个消息后,我们设法叫了一辆在奥尔德肖特等候我们的六座出租车,它将带我们返回法纳姆/奥尔德肖特。
如果你从未乘坐过快速铁路(RAT),那么值得一试,但请记住,它可能价格不菲,而且说实话,六月/七月是欣赏乡村景色等的最佳月份。