Somerset and Dorset Swansong: Last Days of a Steam Railway
Dorset in the Days of Steam
Dorset Destinations No such cleaning attentions have been bestowed upon fellow West Country 34104 Bere Alston at Brockenhurst in June 1966, also heading for Bournemouth. (Strathwood Library Collection) The sounds of seagulls and the ...
The book will take you on the journey from Bath to Bournemouth describing the stations along the route.................... and is complemented by Tales From The Footplate as told by Somerset & Dorset men.In 1966 The Somerset & Dorset ...
These latter two companies were linked bythe Somerset& Dorset Joint Railway on its route to and from Bournemouth. The lastdaysofsteam in the BR era sawthis pattern largely unchanged, with exGWR, LMS,SRand S&DJR engines still running.
... DAY,OLDEN DAYS AT POOLE, THE SQUARE AND THE COMPASS,AT SUGAR KNOB,OUR TOWN,OLD POOLE TOWN, LAWRENCE, SWANAGE,NEWTOWN DAYS,OLDER ROUTE TO THE PURBECK, WINFRITH VILLAGE LIFE,DORSET STEAM FAIR,THEPICK AND SHOVEL DAYS,GARDENING SERVICES ...
She was subsequently preserved and is owned by Southern Locomotives Ltd and operates on the Swanage Heritage Railway in Dorset. (Photo P.56). No. 34031. Torrington. SR. 4-6-2. 'Class WC' (West Country Class) locomotive.
The book will take you on the journey from Bath to Bournemouth describing the stations along the route and is complemented by tales from the footplate told by Somerset & Dorset men Wallace Moon and Geoff Akers.
... in October 1892 and not being withdrawn until December 1966, ending its days as a shunter at Staveley Iron Works. ... locomotive however, with much of its later years on the lamented Somerset & Dorset route in a lined green livery.
Steam in Dorset