Date: 11/02/2013

A Dorset train service is to be reinstated 41 years after being axed thanks to a £1.47m grant. A regular service on the three-mile stretch between Swanage, Corfe Castle and Wareham is set to be restored by Spring 2015. [From Richard Buckby]

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A rail service is to be restored 41 years after being axed thanks to a £1.47m government grant.

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Standing under the canopy at Swanage station in April 1981 with a two coach train waiting at the platform.
Location: Swanage
Company: London and South Western Railway
/04/1981 John McIntyre

Standard class 4 no 80078 with a train on the Swanage Railway, near Corfe Castle, on 29 June 2000.
Location: Corfe Castle
Company: Swanage Railway
29/06/2000 Peter Todd

A Weymouth to Bournemouth push-pull service, comprised of a class 33 locomotive attached at the rear of a pair of 4TC sets, photographed at speed near Wareham in May 1977.
Location: Wareham
Company: Southampton and Dorchester Railway
20/05/1977 John McIntyre