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OOh er, must have been taken out of use then :oops: !

Are you certain? Bournemouth certainly had lifts on P2 and P3 back in the 1970s when i worked there.

Lets not forget Basingstoke panel and Corfe Castle !

Back in the 70s it would have been swiftly dealt with by the application af a Bardic to the testicles/face (delete as applicable), no further action by civil or BTP o_O

Thanks Mr Jeeves :smile:

Just seen on BBC travel news services between Bournemuth and Weymouth at a stand due to operational incident at Poole, any idea whats up and how long things expected to be affected?

Bournemouth Echo reporting no service between Bournemouth & Southampton due to "serious rail defects" anyone know any more ?

No wonder it was a bumpy ride if the carriage only had 3 wheels !!!!!!!!

Surely you mean the A31 At Corfe Mullen, just down the road from the Coventry Arms pub :s.

Shopping in railway stations, dominated by mega corp retailers hmmm, another nail in the coffin for independent high street traders :(.

Holton Heath, originally to serve the R.O.F. cordite factory, these days a large "Industrial Estate" :).

Got to be Corfe Castle IMHO, the view from the station webcam takes some beating :).

Never been extended in the preservation era, effectedly "shortened" for run round purposes when the crossover was moved when the level crossing was put in, however the platform remains the same length.

I would think Minehead takes the prize fer longest platform on a preserved line ;)

Brackley Centra (G.C.R.) goods shed still survives in the middle of an industrial estate, now (mis)named The Engine Shed, line closed to passengers in 1966 and freight sometime before that.

Ah so installation of automatic barriers at Oakworth then, that will upset the purists !;)

Must need one hell of a pull to move twenty miles of point rodding! :lol:

The Q1s were also known as "Telescopes" as per their appearance !

I seem to recall that in the 1970s there was a cabbies shelter (cafe) on the bridge could it have been one of these possibly?

One not mentioned in the wiki article was one of the Purbeck clay tramwaays with a guage of 2' 8 1/2 " :o