Loco sheds and other railway buildings...
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Yertis said:
I rode on the very last BR service Wareham > Swanage, Swanage > Wareham. I've got a little certificate somewhere.
Once the campaign to reopen the line was established the whole scheme still hung in the balance for years while Dorset County Council (or whichever authority it was) dicked about trying to decide the route for the Corfe Castle by-pass, one option being to utilise the trackbed east of Corfe.
Closing the railways / disposing of the trackbeds was really dumb thing to have done in this part of Dorset. I've no doubt that lines from Blandford and Ringwood, through Wimborne and Broadstone to Poole and Bournemouth, would be very viable nowadays.
As would the Somerset & Dorset line down to Bournemouth West. A few years ago a mate and I walked part of the route around Bath and Midford, the latter being one of the locations in the Ealing films classic 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'. We sampled the lovely old pub below Midford Viaduct where Ivo Peters often took rest when he was photographing the line in its heyday. His S&D books are an utter joy to peruse.Once the campaign to reopen the line was established the whole scheme still hung in the balance for years while Dorset County Council (or whichever authority it was) dicked about trying to decide the route for the Corfe Castle by-pass, one option being to utilise the trackbed east of Corfe.
Closing the railways / disposing of the trackbeds was really dumb thing to have done in this part of Dorset. I've no doubt that lines from Blandford and Ringwood, through Wimborne and Broadstone to Poole and Bournemouth, would be very viable nowadays.
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