Parkstone

We parked in the car park at Parkstone for a few minutes on our way to park in the multi-storey car park in Poole. South Western Railway services on the Southampton to Weymouth section of the old LSWR had been disrupted by the weather and by a strike that was called off at short notice. Waiting for the Weymouth bound service that was 40 minutes behind schedule, I clocked the road overbridge to the east of the station, reminding me of how much of the Southern Region’s railway infrastructure was made in concrete, a contrast with the other regions of BR. Desiro Class 444 EMU No. 444 035 duly arrived and three passengers got off and nobody boarded the train. The 5-car Class 444 units were built by Siemens in Austria between 2002 and 2004.