From the archives: A time before HD video, and 'Steady-Shot'! Domestic camcorders are in their infancy.
Window hanging a trip from Poole to Weymouth in 1987, 33102 hauls us to the holiday resort.
In a time when you could hang out of the window, feel the wind in your hair, and the toilet flush in your face!
A lot of change was taking place around this time, as the line was being prepared for electrification. Track was being taken up from Moreton to Weymouth to produce a cost saving 'singleling' of the line and to allow electricity sub stations to be placed on the the old 'down' track bed.
Still with traditional track panels at this time producing the iconic Clickerty-Clack sound before giving way to silent continuous welded rail.
At Weymouth the old Semaphore signalling (remarkably still in place for the year) is being replaced by colour light, and the old box there is on its last legs.
10 янв 2023
