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Wimborne

Photograph: Courtney Haydon Collection (G-146-35A)
30/07/2012 from Alan Norris
location: Wimborne
Wimborne station looking north towards Ringwood and Brockenhurst - the line was open for freight traffic as far as West Moors by this time. The train stabled in the yard (in centre) is an exhibition Train.
30/07/2012 from Tony Walmsley
I'm intrigued to know what the line of coaching stock in this and the previous picture are. the lack of a corridor connection suggests they may be Exhibition train conversions - any ideas?
30/07/2012 from Rob Drake
Don't know much of the details but at this time the Exhibition trains were stored at Wimborne when not in use. They may have also been reconfigured there before their next use.
07/08/2012 from Colin Divall
location: Wimborne
See Jonathan David, 'Exhibition trains on British Railways 1969-1983', Journal of the Historical Model Railway Society 19(3), Jul-Sep. 2006: 71-81 (and the letter and rejoiner in 19(4), Oct-Dec 2006: 128), which includes details of Trainex's use of Wimborne.
14/08/2012 from Colin Divall
location: Wimborne
This is the up movement of the Hampshire Ferret to West Moors on 3 Feb 1973; the train is just passing over the remains of the crossover from what was by then the single line, the former down road, into the up plaftform. The return working used the down platform, to the right. This means a somewhat younger me is hidden from view under the down platform canopy about to take a 35mm colour slide of the train....
27/08/2012 from Peter Kazmierczak
location: Wimborne
On at least one occasion the station site was used to berth the Royal Train with HM The Queen on board. As a youngster, my (now )wife lived close to the station and remembers clearly HM getting out of a car and onto the train.
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