2005
SZ0991 : Bournemouth Railway Station
taken 18 years ago, near to Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole, England
Bournemouth Railway Station
Opened in 1885 as Bournemouth East, renamed Bournemouth Central in 1899 and plain Bournemouth in 1967, this station, which replaced an earlier terminus on the opposite side of Holdenhurst Road, was designed in the style of a winter garden to assuage the fears of the town's upmarket citizens of the time. Here a Class 442 "Wessex" electric unit in Stagecoach Group's South West Trains livery, is seen at the Down platform, still one of the longest station platforms in Britain, after arrival from London Waterloo on a quiet mid-December day. These trains, introduced when electrification was extended west to Weymouth, have since been replaced by newer units.
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