Following on from the very successful Tring Brewery trip, we have hired the same luxury 49-seater coach for our outing to Epping Ongar Beer festival. Check their official website for full details http://eorailway.co.uk/events/real-ale.
This year around 70 ales and 20 ciders are expected. There is a large marquee beer, old carriages to sit and drink in, a tea-room, hot food and snack stalls, a railway gift and second-hand book shop, and optional short trips on the steam and diesel trains (with bars!) as well as the old Routemaster buses to go on.
Coach schedule and pick-up times:
These are LEAVING TIMES – Please arrive 5 mins before!
- 11.00am PICK-UP – St Albans City Railway Station, Station Way AL15HE
- 11.20am PICK-UP – Hatfield Railway Station, 79 Great North Road AL9 5AB
- 11.40am PICK-UP – Hertford East Railway Station, Mill Road SG14 1NB
- 11.50am PICK-UP – Bus Stop C Opposite Hertford Regional College, Hertford Rd (A119) SG12 9AF
- 12.10am DESTINATION – North Weald Station, Station Road, North Weald Bassett, Epping CM16 6BW
- 16.30pm – Start return journey setting down in Ware, Hertford, Hatfield, and St Albans.
This is already proving to be a popular trip, so please email as soon as possible to reserve your place on the coach and which of the 4 locations you wish to be picked up from. You may bring one non-member guest to join us if they haven’t already been on one of our trips.
The cost will be £15 for the return journey. Steam/Diesel train and bus journeys at the location are an optional additional cost. Tutored beer tastings on board the trains may also be available.
Ian Boyd
South Herts Social Secretary
social@hertsale.org.uk / 07402 323525
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P.S. Diary Date: The next trip will be to Peterborough Beer & Cider Festival on Thursday 24th August (400 Ales, Ciders, Perries, etc) with a visit on the way back to Letchworth Garden City Brewery and microbar on the return journey. Details to follow in due course.
