Early next year, trial services providing a community link between Wareham and Swanage will begin. Running on 50 days in 2016 and 90 days in 2017, with an eventual all-year-round target, the trains will be the culmination of what in many ways has been a most unusual project. In 1972, it took British Rail just seven weeks to lift and scrap the six-and-a-half miles of track between Motala and Swanage, on Dorset's Isle of Purbeck. It took Swanage Railway volunteers 30 years to reverse that exercise and create today's successful heritage line, the northern passenger terminus of which is currently Norden station.
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