Does anyone understand exactly how this will work? Presumably the Swanage Railway Company now owns most of the line and has spent 30 years hard work re-introducing a train service along part of it. A connection with the main line must always have been the dream but, now that it looks as if it will come true, will Network Rail or a TOC pay the Swanage Railway Company to operate trains over the line?
Hopefully this could happen on lines elsewhere (e.g. Peak Rail?) so I guess the shareholders of those lines will be asking this question too.
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