Ep4 Flying The Somerset & Dorset Trailway - Blandford Forum to Shillingstone, Dorset, UK, By Drone

2021 Then and now story of 'The Somerset & Dorset' Trailway starting from Sturminster Marshall to Blandford Forum, Dorset.
Our drone follows the original route revealing ghosts from the past along the way.
We have found that there is much less archive material available for the Dorset end of this railway. Perhaps this is because the notable photographers of the day were based more towards Bath than Bournemouth!

Other than becoming a linked up trailway, the drone also shows all the locations along the line where the route has become severed by development. There are optimists out there that believe the railway could be reconstructed in it's entirety.
However, there would now need to be so much compulsory purchase, that we can't see this becoming viable in any of our lifetimes. What do you think?

HS2 is happening only because London has become so rammed with commerce, we need satellite model London's connected together. Although after COVID and home working, you have to question the whole ethos of commuting going forward, which doesn't bode well for the railways that do remain.

Featuring locations at Blandford Forum, Stourpaine & Durweston Halt and Shillingstone Station (The home of the North Dorset Railway).

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Rail Flicks.