Swanage Railway Diesel Gala 2016,
Class 40 D213 (40013) "Andania" running round at
Norden having arrived on the 19:30 from
Swanage.
Clip recorded Friday 6th May 2016.
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The Swanage Railway is a 6-mile (9.7 km) long heritage railway in the
Purbeck district of
Dorset, England. The railway line follows the route of the old Purbeck branch line from Norden, via
Corfe Castle,
Harman's Cross and
Herston Halt to Swanage.
The line was re−connected to the mainline at
Wareham, Dorset, along a stretch of the branch line that had previously only remained open to freight traffic until
2005. In
2013 trains operate on the Swanage Railway between Swanage and Norden
Park & Ride every weekend and
Bank Holiday from mid-February to the end of the year, and every day of the week from
Easter to the end of October.
Santa Special services operate in December.
The link between the Swanage Railway and the main line at
Wareham has been used for materials deliveries, special excursions, locomotive and stock movements only— work is continuing to provide the infrastructure necessary to enable regular services via Wareham to be implemented.
In
April 2009 the line reopened to its first through traffic from
London with occasional special services.
In May
1972, the Swanage Railway
Society was formed with the objective of restoring an all-the-year-round community railway service linking to the main line at Wareham which would be 'subsidised' by the operation of steam-hauled heritage trains during the holidays.
In
1979 a short line re-opened, the length of
King George's playing fields. This was extended first to Herston Halt and then to Harman's Cross in
1988, neither of which had been stations previously. In
1995 the railway reopened from Swanage to Corfe Castle, and onwards to Norden
Park and Ride, another post BR station.
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Norden railway station is a railway station located one mile to the north of the village of Corfe Castle, on the
Isle of Purbeck in the
English county of
Dorset. It is the northern-most station on Swanage Railway, a heritage railway that currently operates from Norden to Swanage.
The Swanage Railway follows the route of the former
London and South Western Railway line from Wareham to Swanage, a line that opened in 1885 and was finally closed by
British Rail in 1972. From the time of closure, a strong campaign to reopen the railway as a steam locomotive operated heritage railway developed, and the Swanage Railway began operating a steam service at the Swanage end of the line in
1982. As the line was progressively extended northwards towards Corfe Castle, concerns grew that terminating the line there would make existing parking problems in the picturesque village worse. It was therefore decided to extend the line the further half a mile to Norden, and build a Park and Ride site there.
Although there was not a passenger station at Norden prior to the opening of the current station in 1995, the station is built on the site of the former Norden
Ball clay works. These works were served by a siding off the Wareham to Swanage railway, and also by two narrow gauge railways that connected the Ball clay pits to the works, and the works to small ports on the south side of
Poole Harbour.
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The
British Rail Class 40 is a type of
British railway diesel locomotive.
Built by
English Electric between
1958 and 1962, and eventually numbering
200, they were for a time the pride of the British Rail early diesel fleet.
Despite their initial success, by the time the last examples were entering service they were already being replaced on some top-link duties by more powerful locomotives. As they were slowly relegated from express passenger uses, the type found work on secondary passenger and freight services where they worked for many years, the final locomotives being retired from regular service in
1985.
British Railways originally ordered ten
Class 40s, then known as "English Electric
Type 4s", as evaluation prototypes. They were built at the
Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows,
Lancashire.[3] The first locomotive,
D200, was delivered to
Stratford on 14 March 1958.
Following fitter and crew training, D200 made its passenger début on an express train from
London Liverpool Street to
Norwich on 18 April 1958. Five of the prototypes, Nos. D200, D202-D205, were trialled on similar services on the former
Great Eastern routes, whilst the remaining five, Nos.
D201, D206-D209, worked on
Great Northern services on the
East Coast Main Line.
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- published: 08 May 2016
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