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PHOTO REPORT ON THE FIRST LONDON TO SWANAGE EXCURSION THE PURBECK PIONEER - Wednesday 1st April 2009
News Item and Press Report from Andrew P.M. Wright - dated 19th April 2009
Official photographer & press officer, Swanage Railway.
Photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright.
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The long-awaited passenger service hauled by freshly-painted DB Schenker Class 66 locomotive No 66152
from the main line at Wareham, watched by hundreds of visitors lining the embankments, arrives at Swanage station on 1st April 2009.
Swanage Railway volunteers launch appeal for funds to help reinstate services to Wareham here.
Read the BBC news
item and see the video
of the Purbeck Pioneer
here.
See the ISSTV news
item and see the video
of the Purbeck Pioneer
here.
Andrew P.M. Wright has supplied over 370 photos as a report chronicling the historic occasion on 1st April 2009
when the first through service since 1972 visited Swanage.
At 8.45am on Wednesday April 1st 2009, under clear blue skies, a twelve-car special - 'The Purbeck Pioneer' hauled by a
DB Schenker Class 66 locomotive No 66152 - departed from London Victoria on schedule and travelled via Leatherhead,
Effingham, the Pompey Direct line, Southampton, Bournemouth, Wareham, Worgret Junction and down to
Corfe Castle and Swanage.
Due to the popularity of the service, it was repeated on 2nd April 2009 with the same configuration.
Due to the number of Andrew's photos, we have grouped them broadly by stages of the journey as follows:
Please select from the above links to see the full set of photos from Andrew P.M. Wright, and scroll down the page to see
several photos from Dave Cook showing the services on both days at Corfe Castle.
The massive 12-coach special passenger service hauled by freshly-painted DB Schenker Class 66 locomotive No 66152
with No 66142 at the rear, photographed from the top of the West Hill adjacent to Corfe Castle, with the first train on the viaduct with the castle
on the right on 1st April 2009. Photo copyright Dave Cook.
The second 12-coach special passenger service on 2nd April 2009 again hauled by freshly-painted DB Schenker Class 66 locomotive No 66152
with No 66142 viewed from East Hill above the Corfe viaduct looking towards Norden.
All photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright unless otherwise noted.
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