点评:Having visited this railway a few years ago and on seeing photos of the new museum published all over social media and knowing that one of my favourite locomotive was visiting from another railway I thought a visit was due. For the last four weeks I have seen promotional articles and posts on social media detailing that Palmerston was proudly in the museum I couldn’t wait to visit.
This week, after a 5 1/2 hour trip , I excitedly arrived to ride on the first train of the day to devils bridge and return, which in its self was lovely and was great to grab a snack in the Two Hoots cafe at devils bridge. On return I entered the museum only to find that after less than FOUR WEEKS they had felt the need to shuffle the museum exhibits around to “keep it interesting “ meaning that Palmerston, the main reason I had travelled there had been removed. Considering that they had used the locos picture in every post for the museum and having had it been mentioned that it was there so much I was more than surprised to find it missing. There was however their own Garrett still on display. Having posted on social media regarding this the returning comment said they hoped I enjoyed the rest of my day. To be completely honest it did rather spoil it.
Having had a conversation with other customers in the museum, none of us were sure of what the exhibits were or where they had come from or indeed their history. Some information would have been most helpful.
The building is itself amazing and beautifully done, although not keen on the sensation you have from the moving block wooden flooring. I wasn’t sure exactly how safe it was as I nearly tripped a couple of times.
Overall it’ felt like it had been a great idea with a rushed execution before opening.
Staff were all pleasant and helpful.
翻译:几年前我参观过这条铁路,看到社交媒体上到处都是新博物馆的照片,而且知道我最喜欢的火车头之一来自另一条铁路,我觉得应该去参观一下。在过去的四周里,我在社交媒体上看到了宣传文章和帖子,详细介绍了帕默斯顿自豪地入选博物馆,我迫不及待地想去参观。
本周,经过 5 个半小时的旅行,我兴奋地抵达,乘坐当天的第一班火车前往魔鬼桥并返回,这本身就很可爱,在魔鬼桥的 Two Hoots 咖啡馆吃点零食也很棒。回来后,我进入博物馆,却发现不到四周,他们就觉得有必要对博物馆的展品进行重新安排,以“保持趣味性”,这意味着我前往那里的主要原因帕默斯顿已被移除。考虑到他们在博物馆的每篇帖子中都使用了火车头图片,而且已经多次提到它在那里,我很惊讶地发现它不见了。不过,他们自己的加勒特仍在展出。在社交媒体上发布关于此事的帖子后,回复评论说他们希望我享受剩下的一天。说实话,这确实毁了这一天。
在与博物馆的其他顾客交谈后,我们都不确定展品是什么,它们来自哪里,甚至它们的历史。一些信息会非常有帮助。
这座建筑本身令人惊叹,做工精美,尽管你不喜欢移动的木地板给你的感觉。我不确定它到底有多安全,因为我差点被绊倒几次。
总的来说,感觉这是一个很棒的想法,但在开业前匆忙实施了。
工作人员都很友好,乐于助人。