PHOTO REPORT: THE £100,000 SWANAGE STATION DRAINAGE WORKS ACTIVITIES - 21st & 22nd January 2012

News Item from Andrew P.M. Wright - dated 26 January 2012
Official photographer & press officer, Swanage Railway.
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Drainage system replacement work at Swanage station January 2012. Photo Andrew P.M. Wright.

Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers and staff are carrying out major £100,000 drainage system replacement work at Swanage station - the first time such extensive work has been carried out at the Victorian terminus since the steam days of British Railways almost 50 years ago.

Drainage system replacement work at Swanage station January 2012. Photo Andrew P.M. Wright.

Drainage system replacement work at Swanage station January 2012. Photo Andrew P.M. Wright.

Over the past two years, the Swanage Railway has invested more than £200,000 in relaying a mile of new track between the limits of Swanage station and Herston Halt on the outskirts of Swanage - track that was originally laid during the early days of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Drainage system replacement work at Swanage station January 2012. Photo Andrew P.M. Wright.

The work involves extensive removal and replacement of point rodding and signalling equipment, digging out of huge quantities of clay and the installation of modern drainage equipment and materials.

Drainage system replacement work at Swanage station January 2012. Photo Andrew P.M. Wright.

While trains are not operating to and from Swanage because of the civil engineering work, a diesel rail bus shuttle train service is still running at the other end of the relaid Purbeck Line - between Norden Park & Ride and Corfe Castle stations on Saturdays and Sundays until 26 February, 2012 (inclusive).

Drainage system replacement work at Swanage station January 2012. Photo Andrew P.M. Wright.

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