Ringwood railway station in 1944
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Ringwood railway station in 1944
Image: © Ronald Searle Taken: Unknown
Taken by my father from an upstairs window of Station House in the months leading up to D-Day in 1944. In a few months time this little country station would be transformed with the arrival on specially adapted trains of the first American casualties from the codenamed beaches of Omaha and Utah. Ringwood lost its railway in 1967 when the line from Brockenhurst was axed under Beeching, and the station and its associated buildings including Station House was demolished. The whole area is now a large industrial estate.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.841899
Longitude
-1.785632