Back on track.
(Note that I'll be awol for a couple of day on flickr)
Saturday Timewatch.
After a lengthy hiatus (too many other projects and quests!) we are determined to get our Somerset and Dorset Railway exploration back on track. Having already completed the southern section from Bournemouth to Blandford Forum, we hope to get at least as far as Sturminster Newton this summer.
This scene shows the remnant stub at the north end of the long gone Blandford Forum station, closed in the late 1960s. Under the Alexandra Street bridge, the North Dorset Trailway beckons us forward as it now follows the route of the old railway line for quite a few miles as a footpath, bridleway and cycleway! The photo below will have been taken from the bridge with the stub down the bottom right corner.
Who remembers Flanders and Swann "The Slow Train"??
"No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Moretehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat"
Back on track.
(Note that I'll be awol for a couple of day on flickr)
Saturday Timewatch.
After a lengthy hiatus (too many other projects and quests!) we are determined to get our Somerset and Dorset Railway exploration back on track. Having already completed the southern section from Bournemouth to Blandford Forum, we hope to get at least as far as Sturminster Newton this summer.
This scene shows the remnant stub at the north end of the long gone Blandford Forum station, closed in the late 1960s. Under the Alexandra Street bridge, the North Dorset Trailway beckons us forward as it now follows the route of the old railway line for quite a few miles as a footpath, bridleway and cycleway! The photo below will have been taken from the bridge with the stub down the bottom right corner.
Who remembers Flanders and Swann "The Slow Train"??
"No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Moretehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat"