Swanage - Wareham / Purbeck Community Rail Partnership October'11 minutes

Re: Swanage - Wareham / Purbeck Community Rail Partnership July 2012 Update

Please see http://www.dorsetforyou.com/media.jsp?mediaid=174385&filetype=pdf for an update on this project. The report proposes limited services to Wareham starting in summer 2013 with a full service in 2015.

best wishes,
Nigel

 

Re: Swanage - Wareham / Purbeck Community Rail Partnership July 2012 Update

Interesting. These minutes talk about the Wareham service operation by the Swanage Railway because it'd be more economic than a commercial company, and of refurbishing DMUs. Is that a new change? I thought there was a recent plan to have it operated using more modern stock/diesel top/tailed by a TOC?

 

Re: Swanage - Wareham / Purbeck Community Rail Partnership July 2012 Update

Could this have anything possibly to do with this proposal?

http://railways.national-preservati...action/36733-2-car-class-101-dmu-spotted.html

 

Afraid not; as stated in the linked thread, this unit is planned for component recovery and subsequent scrapping.

 

I see a very full update on the reconnection project has been posted on the Swanage Railway website - see Swanage to Wareham Daily Service Update for some very interesting reading. Sounds like it is all moving ahead and that the earliest a trial service might start is summer 2014.

 

That looks very good......a railway going somewhere....a good time for people to start getting involved maybe....Am sure they would welcome people to join and volunteer..