BourneFree's photos with the keyword: Dorset

Track-laying the hard way - this is Swanage Railway in the early eighties. As can be discerned it was manual and labour intensive with the help of a small crane, of GWR origin, if I remember correctly. The location looks like the straight that runs behind the houses in Kings Road West, with the Victoria Avenue bridge in the back of the shot.

Bournemouth Alexander-bodied Atlantean 243 (SEL 243H) is seen approaching Winton Banks junction in Bournemouth - the name deriving from the suburb and the proximity (in the past) of a large number of bank branches. It carries posters for the 'Use us or lose us' campaign to get people back on the buses - I'm not sure whether it seems desperate or vaguely threatening with the perspective of hindsight!