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

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by nigelss, Jan 6, 2012.

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  1. nigelss

    nigelss Member

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    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
     
    nigelss, Jul 9, 2012
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    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?
     
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    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
     
    Shaggy, Jul 10, 2012
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    Afraid not; as stated in the linked thread, this unit is planned for component recovery and subsequent scrapping.
     
    Rumpole, Jul 10, 2012
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    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.
     
    nigelss, Jul 25, 2012
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    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..
     
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