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🚂✨ The Lost Bournemouth Motive Power Depot ✨🚂

Once alive with Pacifics, M7 tanks, and Standard locomotives, the Bournemouth steam shed stood proudly beside Bournemouth Station until the very end of Southern Region steam. From its 19th-century origins, through its 1930s rebuild, to its final days in 1967, the depot was a vital hub of Southern steam.

Here, Merchant Navy giants like Blue Funnel and the preserved Port Line stood alongside hardworking tank engines on branch line duties. Yet despite its prestige, Bournemouth never had a modern coaling tower, relying instead on cranes and manpower.

The shed finally closed on 9 July 1967, and by February 1969 it was gone—replaced today by nothing more than a car park. A quiet ending to a once-bustling chapter of railway history.

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