Steam engines, like iron horses ... a world beyond the shores of England. Among the many trains that graced Southampton's tracks, the Bournemouth Belle Express was perhaps the most celebrated.
push-pull diesel trains operated between Bournemouth and Weymouth from the end of main line steam trains in 1967 to the start of electric trains in 1988. The carriages, pulled or pushed by a Class ...
Mel Cox started as a 15-year old steam locomotive cleaner at Bournemouth station in 1964 and by the late 1960s he was driving three-carriage Hampshire class diesel-electric multiple unit trains ...
They were operational from 1967, marking the end of mainline steam trains ... from London to Bournemouth and Weymouth – it also offers operational flexibility to the Swanage Railway." ...