The Wessex Snow & Ice Train continued to make regular appearances into Dorset during February 2025. The motive power for the workings in the early part of the month were in the care of GBRf Class 66 No.’s 66714 ‘Cromer Lifeboat’ & 66768 ‘Yvonne Bradley’. We captured several of the runs at various locations including… Continue reading February 2025 Round-Up
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January 2025 Round-Up
02/01/2025 – We spent New Year in London and I couldn’t resist going to the top floor of our hotel to capture images overlooking Charing Cross and Waterloo East 04/01/2025 – Bark along with us as we visit the Swanage Railway for their first event of 2025, the “Winter Warm Up” which took place on… Continue reading January 2025 Round-Up
Peak Performance
Backtracking…. On Saturday 27th July 2024 I had the mad notion of leaving home in the early hours in order to arrive at Bristol Temple Meads in time to see Locomotive Services Limited’s (LSL) newly restored Sulzer Type 4 Class 45 diesel locomotive No. 45118 ‘The Royal Artilleryman’ passing through the station with the empty coaching… Continue reading Peak Performance
July 2024 Catch Up
Time flies and here we are. At the time of writing it is the beginning of August 2024 still playing catch up. So with little ceremony or narrative, what follows is a run through of notable railway comings and goings into Dorset territory during July 2024. Monday 1st July – 73962 ‘Dick Mabbutt’ & 73965… Continue reading July 2024 Catch Up
Strictly Bulleid II
June 2024 Welcome to another blog entry in the world of “The Railway Dog”. In an effort to get up to date, we’re looking at our local highlights from June 2024 when the big event was the Swanage Railway’s “Strictly Bulleid II” event which saw the gathering of eight of Oliver Bulleid’s Pacific locomotive designs… Continue reading Strictly Bulleid II
Severn Valley
May 17th to May 31st 2024 Hello there, we’re slowly going to attempt to catch up with mine and Yoshi’s adventures over the last couple of months. So join us in the first instalment which brings up to the end of May 2024, the month which saw the Spring Diesel Gala taking place on the… Continue reading Severn Valley
Winfrith Waste
It has been an interesting week in review with the first of what should be semi-regular visits to Dorset of trains in connection with a project to dispose of of more than 1,000 stainless steel drums of waste at Nuclear Waste Services’ Low Level Waste Repository site from Winfrith Magnox site. Gresley A3 Pacific No.… Continue reading Winfrith Waste
Railway Ramblings
This week ( February 8th to 15th 2022 ) has seen the Bournemouth to Weymouth line welcome engineers trains and test trains which has provided an interesting variety and a change from the norm. Class 701 testing continues and this week it was the turn of unit No. 701032 to run down to Poole. On… Continue reading Railway Ramblings