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Modern Railways covers the Scottish rolling electrification programme in the June edition.
https://www.modernrailways.com/article/scotlands-rolling-programme-cuts-electrification-costs-26
Sections of the article are copied below

Green Signals have released a 45 minute interview with Lord Peter Hendy looking at the future. He has some interesting points to make, especially with regard to the role of the MD of SWT^▸ (South West Trains)

https://youtu.be/dYcb9tV0Glw?si=GVc0dcgIV7eZCOzg

The 11.28 Exeter to Penzance is booked for them today according to RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website)

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:P08887/2025-05-27/detailed#allox_id=0

Your best bet is to enter Pnz in RTT and go through each service to/from Plymouth or Exeter

If we could get a return to the NSE^▸ (Network South East) sub-divisions and give them some autonomy then there may be a chance. The WoE would look after the main line and perhaps Reading Basingstoke, along with Salisbury to Southampton. Their brief would be to develop the business, looking at other opportunities such as Bath and Bristol.
The Portsmouth Direct and Weymouth lines would return to Solent and Wessex.

I am not sure if you have seen these articles

https://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Chilmark/Chilmark%20-%20Little%20Trains%20of%20RAF%20Chilmark.pdf

https://www.kentrail.org.uk/dinton.htm

https://www.theurbanexplorer.co.uk/teffont-quarry-raf-chilmark-north-chilmark-wiltshire/

Paddington 175 late. It ran through platform 1 at Castle Cary according to RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website), which is only available from Taunton. So the booked route via Honiton was not taken. Likewise it seems to have gone via the B&H^▸ (Berks and Hants - railway line from Reading to Taunton via Westbury), with not the booked call at Swindon

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G45618/2025-05-11/detailed

As I mentioned in a post, the R Frome has two parallel roads. One is the main road while the other involves tracks and minor roads. It passes a Roman aqueduct and Poundbury Camp on the way.
The map marks the route
Sadly the track bed on the Bridport branch is only accessible from Toller onwards. The walk to Toller may be best via road to Wynford Eagle and then footpath to Toller.

 At Nettlecombe is the Marquis of Lorne for lunch. Let me know if you are going to do it.

At Bridport return by bus to Dorchester(X51) or Weymouth (X53 and X52 open top in summer) Each to a two hourly timetable.

That was the site of Cattistock Halt, opposite is Cattistock Cricket Club where I spent many hours trying to play that game.

If open the Fox and Hounds at Cattistock would have been the better choice. The Chalk and Cheese used to be called the Brewery Inn. One of three pubs open when I moved there in 1976, the others were the White Horse and the Castle. The latter had a terrace on to the river.

The only bus now is the school bus to Beaminster School. There was a regular run years ago running Dorchester, Maiden Newton to Evershot and Yeovil but that stopped some years ago.
Plans are being developed for the section from Maiden Newton to Toller, which will be the last section to be opened for active travel.

Holywell or Evershot Tunnel was built at the behest of the land owner, Lord Ilchester. The WSWR would have preferred a cutting. Plans at Dorchester Record Office show that the north entrance of Evershot Tunnel needed the cuttings deepened and extended before opening of the line. The road over the tunnel at this point had to be diverted.

Like other Dorset rivers, the Frome has parallel roads on either side - the winter and summer ways.  These form a circular walk to Evershot or to Rampisham.

The Chetnole Inn was a regular watering place when the evening trains were loco hauled!

Bubble car W55033, which is preserved at the Colne Valley Railway, was the last train to leave Bridport station on May 3rd 1975.
The CVR commemorated the event this year.
https://www.colnevalleyrailway.co.uk/marking-the-closure-of-the-bridport-branch/

Thirty years ago Marion and I researched these walks for the partnership, who then finished off the design and printed them.

This might help
https://property.networkrail.co.uk/properties/ADV00501/

24 Cardiff Bay station

4  - you can still see the platforms are separated by a wide track bed. This is evidence of its broad gauge origins. The line from Yeovil Pen Mill to Evershot was doubled in 1859 to help with timekeeping over Evershot bank. The narrowing of the gauge took place in 1874, only Bruton shows the same width between platforms