Welcome to the Trouble on the Watermeadow Line Website.
Thanks for visiting my site. I am Simon Hall, the author of a series of children’s books centred around Tom and Holly and their adventures aboard heritage trains up and down the country.
After the success of my first book, Trouble on the Watermeadow Line, I have been continuing to write further books in the series, and my fifth, “The portal of time and Strawberry Line“ is now available.
Taking an autumnal holiday break, Holly, Tom, Pip the cat and Boo the toy giraffe (along, of course with their ever-patient Mum and Dad) are looking forward to a quiet steam train journey starting at Cranmore in Somerset. Nestled deep in the Mendip Hills are the East Somerset Railway and the famous Cheddar Caves but also the infamous prison at Shepton Mallet. Yet little did the children know that the magicians from stories past have a new quest for them to undertake.
They must travel back in time on the Strawberry Line and board the dastardly Bertie Von Trotter’s circus train. Will the family find the four portals of time the magicians have told them about? Will the circus animals evade the dreadful Von Trotter and get back to their homes in Africa and India? And will the family ever cycle the Strawberry Line as it is today and arrive home in time for tea?
Keep your eyes peeled for dates and my latest news!
Come and see me at the new book launch of the second edition of “Beastly Times On The Jurassic Line" on the following dates and locations:
August 13 - 16 - Cheddar Caves, Somerset
August 19 - 20 - East Somerset Railway, Cranmore Station, Somerset.
August 22 - Steve Etches Museum, Great Jurassic Birthday Bash, Kimmeridge, Dorset
Or you can find me at the following locations throughout the year:
11 - 12 April - East Somerset Railway - Cranmore Station, Somerset
15 - 17 June - Watercress Line - Retro Wheels and Rail - Ropley Station - Hampshire
24 - 26 June - East Somerset Railway - Cranmore Station, Somerset
26 - 28 June - Swanage Railway - Road to Rail - Swanage, Dorset
28 - 30 July - BlueBell Railway - Reptiles - Kingscote Station, Sussex
13 - 16 August - Cheddar Caves, Somerset
17- 18 August - Shepton Mallet Jail, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
19 - 20 August - East Somerset Railway, Cranmore Station, Somerset
22 August - Steve Etches Museum, Great Jurassic Birthday Bash, Kimmeridge, Dorset
11 - 13 September - Swanage Railway - Autumn Gala, Swanage, Dorset
2 - 4 October - Watercress Line - Steam Gala - Alresford Station, Hampshire
24 - 25 October - East Somerset Railway - Halloween - Cranmore Station - Somerset
27 - 29 October - Watercress Line - Wizard Week, Alresford Station, Hampshire
7 - 8 November - Gravesend Model Railway, Kent
Trouble on the Watermeadow Line, published 2018.
Crossing time on the Blueberry Line, published 2019.
Frosty times on the Heather Moors Line, published 2020.
Beastly times on the Jurassic Line, published April 2022.
The portal of time and the Strawberry Line, published May 2024.
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