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SR120 - RE-ENACTMENT OF THE OPENING OF THE SWANAGE RAILWAY TO CELEBRATE ITS 120TH BIRTHDAY ON 20TH MAY 2005 - 125 PHOTOS OVER 8 PAGES
Photo Report from Andrew P.M. Wright - dated 23rd May 2005.
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The three days of ‘Swanage 120’ celebrations started on Friday, 20th May, 2005, with a re-enactment of the
Victorian opening ceremony for the branch line that had taken place on Swanage station on Wednesday, 20th May, 1885.
The Victorian opening ceremony is re-enacted at Swanage.
Exactly 120 years later, specially invited guests included the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset,
Captain Michael Fulford-Dobson, civic dignitaries from Dorset, Purbeck and Swanage councils,
ex-staff members from the former British Rail branch line and the rectors of Corfe Castle and Swanage.
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Swanage signalman Mike Banks on duty at Swanage signal box on 20th May 2005
80078 awaiting DMU arrival at Swanage with children in Victorian costume from Corfe Castle First School to join their colleagues from two schools in Langton Matravers and three in Swanage.
The family that is the Swanage branch. Corfe Castle's last signalman Bob Richards with veteran Swanage branch and
main line driver Stan Symes shown with SR driver Pete Frost who used to ride the branch on the steam footplates and
diesel cabs in the 1960s as he grew up in Corfe Castle the son of a publican. Pete knew the branch line staff very well
as a result of his enthusiasm for the branch.
Bob Richards with veteran Swanage branch and main line driver Stan Symes and former BR Swanage booking clerk Bryan Green (right) who left in 1967.
Tony Hallworth and ex-BR Eastleigh and Basingstoke fireman George Crouch
(who used to work on the Lymington branch and Mid-Hants lines in BR days and who now takes the Swanage
Railway's monthly mutual improvement classes for its footplate crews) on the Beattie Well Tank greeting Stan Symes.
Tony and George greet Stan Symes.
Swanage Railway senior guard John Stopher directs George Crouch before the Swanage 120 ceremonial train (just two coaches) to Norden sets back further down the platform at Swanage.
Dave Mitchell with Tony Hallworth at Swanage.
Swanage Railway supporters on the platform at Swanage.
Swanage Railway volunteer and membership secretary Liz Sellen in Victorian costume with Tony Hallworth and George Crouch.
The crews at Swanage on 20th May 2005.
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Last Updated 17th August 2005 by Keith Morgan.
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