Locomotive 47246 was in the sidings in Wharfdale Road, Westbourne, when it went off the rails, ploughed through the buffer and embedded itself in the tarmac of the slip road beside the Wessex Way.
Picture taken by the Bournemouth Daily Echo on December 12, 1985
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