I finally got to step from the cab at Swanage

On Thursday 21st September 2017, A4 60009 worked a tour from London to Swanage, the railway I first became involved with in February 1976. I was on that first visit for No9 to The Purbeck Line, something I had wanted for a very long time, and after 27 years as part of the support crew I finally succeeded in stepping from the cab onto the platform having rode the footplate from Wareham. A dream come true.