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The Dorset Wanderer

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    Swanage

    in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips

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    Ah, now you are scratching the surface of a very interesting subject, one of a few mineral railways that were part of the 3500 year history of clay mining on the Purbeck peninsula. search them out, there are some good books on the subject. http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2007/01/purbecks-clay-railways/

    edit - I wonder what happened to Mervin (Turvey), used to see him regularly at Swanage in the 1980's/early 90's, he'd often stop for a chat ??.

    Hi Paul

    Mervyn is still going strong and I see him regularly at 3 mm shows_ not so sprightly now as we all are

    Best wishes

    Steve

    Severn Valley Railway

    in Preservation

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    Whilst on many levels, I’m a bleeding heart liberal, I do think punishments neither fit the crime nor are imaginative enough. In this case, I doubt a short custodial sentence would make one jot of difference to the perpetrators. Instead, give them a community service order to restore the coaches/work on the SVR. Not the easy jobs,but some of the less pleasant physically graft required. At inconvenient times. Preferably whilst wearing tabards identifying them as crims. I’m sure there are plenty of necessary but unpleasant jobs on a heritage line that could be usefully put these people’s way. I suspect others here are better placed to comment on what might fit that category!

     

    [i appreciate that they’d still need supervising etc and even such manual and menial tasks may be beneath them]

    Probably these tasks would be beyond them

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