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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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Peter Sills & his father Fred, making a special piece of Dorset Railway history
at Swanage station on 1st April 2009,
when they arrived at Swanage on the first train from Wareham to Swanage since 1972 - 37 years after the pair rode on the last British Rail train between the two
Purbeck towns.
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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.
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.
All photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright unless otherwise noted.
Photos on these pages are low resolution versions.
Full resolution photos are available for media use
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