Exbury, the Rothschilds’ garden refuge

“There’s more to driving a steam train across Exbury Gardens than clambering on to the footplate and ‘off we puff’,” Marie-Louise Agius says lightheartedly, if not a tad incredulous at the assumption that it’s easy. “You’re having to feel, listen, sense, anticipate and react. Every time you drive there are a different number of people on the train, a different weight, it may be dry, it may be wet, the fire is a different temperature… There are so many variables,” she…