Date: 09/04/2016

Passenger trains have run over four miles of restored track in Dorset for the first time in 44 years. The services are part of Swanage Railway Spring Steam Gala, which runs until Sunday, and mark the latest step in a bid to reconnect the seaside resort with the mainline. Four journeys a day will run over the newly installed Norden Gates level crossing and on to the River Frome. Diesel train trials are due to start running to Wareham early next year.

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First passenger trains on restored track

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Passenger trains run over four-miles of restored track in Dorset for the first time in 44 years.

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Not looking at its best on a cold damp March day in 1977, Corfe Castle station building has a few beer kegs and crates of empty bottles on the platform but no passengers. Today the station has been beautifully restored with trains running again on the Swanage Railway. [See image 49274]
Location: Corfe Castle
Company: Swanage Railway
/03/1977 John McIntyre

Bulleid West Country Pacific 34072 257 Squadron at Norden on the Swanage Railway in July 1999.
Location: Norden
Company: London and South Western Railway
18/07/1999 Peter Todd

We knew we had overtaken the train; so we stashed the car, and ran back to the bridge, cameras in hand. The 17.20 from Norden to Swanage, which we had missed at two stations, duly came into view; and suddenly it was 1963 again - though I can't remember it first time round!
Location: Herston Halt
Company: Swanage Railway
15/08/2015 Ken Strachan