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040712_mvp_milldown.jpg (248684 bytes) Milldown, July 2004. This is a view stood on the trackbed looking towards Stourpaine. The overbridge more or less marks the summit of the short climb from Blandford station and still shows the tell-tale line of soot from the locomotive exhaust on its underside!. Pic © Mark Pike.
mark_pike_blandford-stour_01.jpg (95510 bytes) The remains of the bridge over the Stour, August 2003. The earthworks either side were used in the construction of the Blandford Bypass. Pic © Mark Pike.
mark_pike_blandford-stour_02.jpg (101022 bytes) Pic © Mark Pike.
mark_pike_blandford-stour_03.jpg (72652 bytes) Pic © Mark Pike.
31_Blandford_Station.jpg (72432 bytes) OK, spot the trackbed. Taken from the access road to the supermarket built on the the lowered embankment, looking north towards Templecombe. The remains of the overbridge can be seen in the distance, the housing having been built on the station site. September 2000 - Words & pix Steve Banfield
32_Bridge_Over_Stour.jpg (55313 bytes) Bridge Over the river Stour At Blandford. The bridge remains, but the embankment has gone to help build the bypass, and more recently, a new supermarket, just out of shot in the right distance. The signs on the bridge indicate it is a dangerous structure.  Not half as dangerous as the Whitehall accountants who caused this scene to be repeated all over the land. September 2000. Words & pix Steve Banfield
bl1.jpg (92092 bytes) Goods shed looking north towards Shillingstone c.1972 - Pic M. Snellgrove.
bl2.jpg (70745 bytes) Looking south - station buildings c.1972 - Pic M. Snellgrove.
bl3.jpg (73588 bytes) Looking south - goods shed c.1972 - Pic M. Snellgrove.
bl4.jpg (79007 bytes) Coal merchants building - Pic M. Snellgrove.
bl5.jpg (82447 bytes) Down platform - Pic M. Snellgrove.