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 ‘Main line return to Swanage’
The full story behind the return of passenger trains to the Swanage branch in April and May. Includes
aerial footage of Tangmere as it arrives and departs from the branch. Many lineside locations and interviews with the
key people on the day and footage of the trains as they departed from London and on the journey to Dorset.
Altogether, a fitting tribute to the final connection with the main line at Wareham. |
| 2 hours in duration £9.95 |
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 'The Summer of 2007 - Swanage Railway Galas'
An indepth look at the
two main galas held on the Swanage Railway during 2007. In May the
Railway was host to the biggest diesel gala yet which witnessed the
inclusion of four main line diesels and electro-diesels and a VEP set
coming in off the main network - D1015, 73 136, 73 208 and 47 635.
This first movement over the whole branch since the 1960s from Worgret
Junction to Swanage was a spectacle itself and is fully covered in this
programme. As well as the guest locomotives, the Railway’s Class 33,
No. 6515 Stan Symes and Class 20 D8188 entered the event which was
hailed as a great success. We have footage of the arrival and departure
of the main line ensemble and action of the locomotives over the May
weekend. Some fascinating sequences from the cab as we ride the cab of
Class 52 diesel Western Champion! |
90 minutes duration £12.95 |
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 'The Story of the Swanage Railway'
The full story of one of the UK’s
premier steam branch lines. From the first attempts to purchase the
line after closure by British Railways in 1973 to the successful
purchase of the track bed and initial services out of Swanage, we look
at the growth of the line through the highly motivated preservation
society, The Southern Steam Trust, who has led the rebuilding of the
branch line back to Corfe and Norden with a final link back to the
national network again through to Furzebrook and Wareham.
Through archive films, stills, and interviews, we look at the
Purbeck line from its British Rail days through to the eventual closure
period of the early 1970s. Happily today we still have a Swanage
branch. Our programme follows the great milestones in the preservation
project right up to date with the relaying of track through to Motala,
the reconstruction works at Harmans Cross and Corfe and the many
locomotives and operational high points since the start of steam
operations in the early 1980s. |
100 minutes duration £9.95
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