Blandford Forum station & signal box
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Blandford Forum station & signal box
Image: © Martin Tester Taken: 14 Aug 1963
Seen from the 1.10pm from Bournemouth West, BR Standard 3 2-6-2T 82008 (built Swindon 6/52, withdrawn 2/64) is standing rather unexpectedly on the 'wrong road'. It may be that it has arrived on a terminating local train & has been shunted out of the way of my Bath-bound train. The scene is dominated by the tall signal box on the down platform. Blandford marked the end of the 8 mile double track section from Corfe Mullen. My train will shortly take the 16 mile single track section to Templecombe. The cast iron apparatus by the corner of the goods shed is the Whitaker tablet exchange apparatus used on the S&DJR, here to collect the tablet from southbound trains at the end of the single track section. Blandford closed to passengers on Monday 7th March 1966 together with the rest of the Somerset & Dorset. However freight traffic continued until 1969.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.85871
Longitude
-2.160637