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FIRST BALLAST TRAIN RUNS ON TO THE SWANAGE RAILWAY SINCE THE LATE 1960s - 10th October 2007
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News Item and Press Release from Andrew P.M. Wright
Official photographer & press officer, Swanage Railway.
Photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright unless otherwise acknowledged.
To view a larger version of any photograph on this page, just click on the thumbnail photograph and subsequently use the Back button on your browser to return to this page.

Please scroll down the page to see the full set of over 260 photos of the ballast train in operation on the Swanage Railway on 10th October 2007.

Ballast train running from the
national network on to the Swanage Railway 10th October 2007. Photo copyright Andrew P.M. Wright
The ballast train on the Swanage Railway on Wednesday 10th October 2007.

Dorset railway history has been made with an engineers' ballast train running from the national network on to the Swanage Railway's relaid Purbeck Line - for the first time since the late 1960s.

Andrew P.M. Wright has supplied over 260 photos of this historic event. To see the full set of photos, please scroll down the page.

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To see the full set of over 260 photos of the ballast train in operation on the Swanage Railway on 10th October 2007, please follow these links.
- To visit the first page of photos please click here.
- To visit the second page of photos please click here.
- To visit the third page of photos please click here.
- To visit the fourth page of photos please click here.
- To visit the fifth page of photos please click here.
- To visit the sixth page of photos please click here.
- To visit the seventh page of photos please click here.
- To visit the eighth page of photos please click here.

All photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright unless otherwise acknowledged.
Photos on these pages are low resolution versions.
Full resolution photos are available for media use

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Last Updated 15th Oct 2007 by Keith Morgan.
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