Get on board for land train’s new Esplanade route

The Weymouth Land Train is now offering a second route along the Esplanade. The train has been granted permission to run from opposite The Gloucester to the Sealife Centre from 9am to 10.30am and from 4.15pm to 6.15pm until the end of August.

The main route will still run from the harbour every 30 minutes between 11am and 3pm daily.

The routes do not run concurrently as there is only one land train. Train owner Tony Poole said: “This useful transport link is a favourite with tired families returning from Weymouth beach to the car parks at Lodmoor and those visiting the Sealife Centre.

“The (new) Yellow route will operate in the mornings and afternoons only on the Esplanade. The Land Train will be using HVO Fuel – Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, a synthetic diesel alternative that is made from completely renewable raw materials. “We are excited about the new route and providing a link from the Lodmoor car parks to the beach and town centre.”

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By Miranda Robertson miranda@westdorsetmag.co.uk

An underground bunker decommissioned 67 years ago has come back to life as a quirky holiday home.

Sykes Cottages, which manages the Transmitter Bunker, say the unusual pad, set in a hillside at Ringstead looking over the sea, is already fully booked for the summer. Where once it would have been kitted out with radar equipment, it now has an open-plan living and dining room, kitchen, a twin bedroom, a bunk bedroom and a shower room.

A far cry from its once spartan wartime facilities, the bunker now has underfloor heating, a smart TV, wifi and modern kitchen appliances including a dishwasher.

But while it has been transformed, nods have been paid to its previous life, with the concrete walls kept bare throughout and exposed pipes and lighting visible. The old bunker was built in 1941 to warn of Hitler’s bombers in the Second World War. It was one of the first military radar bases to reach operational status in the UK.

The RAF radar base was part of Winston Churchill’s ‘chain home’ early-warning system of bunkers along the south coast used to track the Luftwaffe’s movements. Later it was repurposed as a rotor station to identify Russian bombers during the Cold War. It was last used in 1956. After it was decommissioned, it was left as a grassy mound hidden from view by

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