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THE newly-refurbished Railway Hotel in Fordingbridge has reopened its doors after months of being closed due to lockdown. The former pub on Station Road has been transformed into a new boutique hotel and started welcoming back diners and hotel guests on Friday.
The building s history It was originally opened in the 1860’s by Eldridge Pope, a Dorchester Brewer and served Fordingbridge Railway Station, which was one of the stops on the newly built Salisbury and Dorset Railway. The line was closed in 1964 and the Railway Hotel became The Load of Hay and was later named after the artist Augustus John.
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IT HAS been nine decades since the famous Bournemouth Belle express first ran through Basingstoke and Hampshire. And now the journey will be recreated this summer with Britain’s poshest train passing through the town on Monday, July 5. The steam-hauled Northern Belle – described by actor Bill Nighy on TV recently as “the Grand Duchess of luxury trains” – is scheduled to follow the same route from London. But the exact timings are likely to be kept hush-hush in a bid to avoid hordes of trainspotters and railway enthusiasts thronging station platforms along the route and trying to photograph it. Northern Belle sales director Howard Barclay explained: “Normally we’d be delighted to see crowds turning out to see our train and the passengers love that too – they say they feel like royalty waving back!