wow. l remember when Swanage had a dream to restore the station and coefe castle station

In August 1972 my dad and me walked down from the road bridge to Scotland Heath to Corfe station at the time the contractors were removing the track. The narrow gauge clay line had finished up by that pint and there were a couple of wagons sitting on Skew Arch Bridge. I went up and pushed them about a bit and dad took a photo of me doing so. I took home a rail key as a souvenir. In 1979 I started volunteering there for the next five years. Still have many friends there from the early years.

Amazing Video. I’m from Weymouth now78 years old.In the height of Summer the train used to set off from Weymouth station to the quay. And the town almost came to a standstill, Well! Idiots used to park over the edge of the painted markings.So! The train couldn’t get past.The rail guys and sometimes the Police would help,used to have to bounce the cars off of the markings. Seen it so many times. (There is actually on KZbin, scenes of them doing this) I could never understand the mentality of these drivers. You park behind the lines. I have been parked as the train came by,and the effect of being stopped but the train moving was a very strange experience. I have actually tugged the handbrake because I thought that I was moving, the feeling was awful. And on occasions I thought I was going to be sick.Trust me you have to have been there. Many people I have spoken to since then have said the same thing. That they experienced that strange movement. Up close to a moving train when you are stopped ! Horrible. Many years ago. Happier days than these. That’s for sure! Now I live in Poole and see the train come across the embankment on Poole Harbour,well actually Poole Park. Every day. My flat overlooks the park and the embankment,so it’s part of my life now.

reminds me of the time trainspotting at bridgend with my late dad and the dreights going through at sprrd the torblance caused at pyle near bridgend on stormy bank the gwr a alowed to do 100mph throgh the station

England was so different back then, I wish I could experience that era

I miss the class 43 Valenta Paxman trains. Nowadays modern trains are too boring looking and quiet, I miss the days when they were extremely loud and when we had diesel engines everywhere and I miss the smoke that used to come out of them

When we were kids in Bournemouth, Swanage and Corfe Castle were our go-to place for days at the seaside or countryside. Bournemouth pier to Swanage on Cousins paddle steamer, or by rail from either Central or West stations. Visited the resurrected line in 2005, 2010 and 2014, and took in all the sites around remembering days gone by. A magnificent effort by all involved over the many decades! Now semi-retired in Picton, South Island, New Zealand.

Fascinating, love old stations.

Fascinating! I have walked parts of this section and it’s been great to see it from an aerial perspective. The flood ‘barrier’ embankment at Stourpaine is intriguing, is it part of the Trailway?

I used to love watching the trains go thru Didcot when waiting there; you could really feel the energy as they passed.

We were there last week (June 2024) for the Bullied event. Every member of the Swanage Railway can be proud of what has been achieved and what they continue to achieve. Love it.

I come Back to this video quite often. Easily the best (Valenta) HSTs at speed video.

The destruction of the S&D was a crime and perpretraitors are all dead what a waste 😮😢

The LE Class 47 shouldn't be travelling at that speed due to BF regulations !

Great stuff. I love the orange on the class 20s, what's it called?

WHY IS IT WHEN THERES A RAIL DISASTER THEY ALWAYS SAY RAIL TRAVEL IS ALWAYS THE SAFEST FORM OF TRAVEL

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing, did you require special permission for the drone? I live quite close and have always fancied it 😊

Had a fantastic couple of days at gala, beautiful weather and very well turned out engines. This railway is so well kept. Staff must have worked really hard so a big thank you to them. Love the drone shots. Keep up the good work

Awsome😊😊

Awsome😊😊

An old intercity 125 noise is sooo sexcccc, literally could listen to that noise all day

I like the bit towards the end when you were chasing 47484 Isambard Kingdom Brunel. As it hapoens the only one I am short of is 47500 Great Western in the dame livery. I have all the others, 47079 George Jackson Churchward 47484 Isambard Kingdom Brunel 47628 Sir Daniel Goich 50007 Sir Edward Elgar 121020 in GWR chocolate and cream livery And B430 the 117 in GWR chocolate and cream livery All for the GWR 150 celebrations in 1985. I also have the class 57 in the same livery, 57604 Pendennis Castle, in the same livery. I have 60081 in GWR lined green on order with Cavalex through Rails of Sheffield. 47500 is the only one I need to complete the set...

Say, where are the handbrakes for these LNER coaches?

Ahh, good old fashioned semaphores. We don't have those in Canada anymore, but this is the beauty of them. They don't simply tell whether the tracks are clear by color; it's also whether the arm is raised or lowered.

Such a great video! Makes me think of my dad. Great stuff! So great!

Watercress Line) Rail Flicks love louis shirley

Too many adverts, sorry not for me.

i miss the old reading station have not been in years nice video

Wow that took me back many years,😊

34092 only ever had two depot allocations.I remember when she was transferred to our depot at Salisbury. We would stop off on our way to school (St. Thomas's), to see the 08.45 train leave. This train always dropped off some vans that were then pushed to the East End by the station pilot. Imagine our surprise that morning when instead of the usual Drummond Tank, the "push out" was done by 34092 !!!! I've no idea what Gabby Hays, or Mick Farrer may have tried to teach us that day, but I'll never forget City of Wells on the "push out !!" .

Brilliant idea but a bit disorienting constantly switching camera angles. Would have been easier to follow had it been presented as a single continuous journey.

I'd have dumped the air and ran back through the engine compartment... very few people would survive a fall at 50mph. In the event, sadly it sounds like it was un-necessary - from the report: "Although the locomotive was extensively damaged and the leading bogie derailed, the integrity of the driver's cab remained intact." Hate things like this, poor bloke just went to work and stuff like this means he's never clocking off. RIP Driver Brooker

A hard decision.....stay with it or jump, at that speed I'd have jumped, hopefully as a driver I'll never have to decide but it's something I ofter think about, especially when passenger often block our cab access into the train carriage with suitcases which could end up trapping us in the cab.

I have fading childhood memories of passing through Blandford by car, to visit family in Mere, and seeing the East Street bridge in the distance. Deeply nostalgic to see it again.

Whilst watching this lovely nostalgic, informative, professionally produced video at my home near the northern end of the S&D at Bradford on Avon Wiltshire has kindled a desire within me to visit Shillingstone station during the coming summer months... Thank You !

Love it thank you very much bought back alot of memories of the old class33 s have you any others .

Good film, thank you.

Further to my previous post, I saw the GUV an at Brockenhurst on three occasions. We had hoped to do the cycle hire, but didn’t manage it in the end.

Have been following the North Dorset Railway project from the S. Hemisphere. Probably never be able to return to see it in person. These videos from all over UK keep me in touch with progress, and NDR in particular, as one day, long, long ago I visited Shillingstone as 12 year old, and never forgotten that day!

When I was in the Lifeboys in Winton , Bournemouth, our group met up with other troops from round the region at Shillingstone. We went by train from Bournemouth West. I have, regretfully, I have never been on the rest of the line to Bath. My late mother did part of her hairdressing training at Midsomernorton, just before WW II, and travelled on the line many times from her home town of Ringwood. Now living 18,821 km from that area!

I'm grateful to you for this as I was miffed to have missed the celebrations. In return and as a fan of the Charlotte Roses of this world, you really can't miss the splendidly mad Dutchman's version of a certain theme tune belonging to a fond remembered adaptation of the books that got us here in the first place. Intrigued, I hope, name that tune in... kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6C9faZvi6xqbtUsi=ndkoO3otfW_FbUtx

Very well filmed and very informative but i believe you have the year wrong on the two Bailey Gate photographs that say it is 1965,and as the S & D never closed until March 1966 those 2 photo dates are wrong.At a guess i would say 1968/69 for the shot of D6506 on the recovery train,also the state of the p-way is pretty bad.Freight continued up to Blandford until early 1969.I also walked the line from Blandford to Corfe Mullen in 1969 all the track was still in situ.Your film brought back memories.

Looking at that damage, I reckon the driver may have survived the crash if not jumping out of the door.

The two steam locos are carrying the later British Railways crest, which dates the photo to after 1958. The track doesn't look as though it is in regular use, so I think the photo was taken between the closure of the line as a through route in March 1967 and the end of Southern steam in July 1967. Blandford station remained open for freight traffic until 2nd January 1969, although army traffic for Blandford camp was withdrawn at the end of 1967. Great concept for a video series. It's much easier to see from the air where the missing bits of trackbed went. Thanks for making this.

Great video! What typical destinations were served by the loco hauled Network SouthEast services?

Hats off to you. Incredible footage 😮 the audio is amazing too

An enormous amount of work has gone into producing these videos of the old line, for which I, and I am sure many others, are enormously grateful. When you are on the Pines, as I was several times before its 1962, rerouting, most of what is in your videos is inevitably missed and so many gaps of what is merely seen from train level are filled in. This is particularly because, as child at that time, the journey from Manchester sometimes felt interminable. But maturity brings with it an appreciation of the actual journeys and the countryside. If the S&D was not one of the most loved railways in britain, so many people , including yourself, would not spend so much time and effort filming it, rebuilding it and carving out much of the route for walkers and cyclists. So it must be true.

Beautifully filmed, immaculately researched and also accompanied by a wonderful, fittingly melancholy soundtrack. There is no more to be said..

3:02 I wouldn't have fancied too many shifts on the Spetsbrie archaeological dig to rediscover the station platforms and so on. I'm willing the North Dorset devotees to power on through with their track extension pack B and more so that I can have a go at the deep cutting at Stur. It's always annoyed and intrigued me in equal measure.

Please can we have the next section westward.