Please be aware that this is a popular trail with walkers and cyclists alike; stealth must be employed here - please replace cache so it is not visible to the general public. Thanks and happy hunting!
This cache is placed on what was the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, which ran between those two great places, via Ringwood and Wimborne, and with a branch to Poole; it was authorised in 1845 and opened on the 1st of June 1847. This line became known as the Castleman Corkscrew, after the Wimborne solicitor Charles Castleman, who built the line, and because of the meandering nature of the route. West Moors (for Ferndown) station, pictured above, was just a short distance south west of GZ and opened for business in August 1867, just eight months after the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway had opened and which joined the Castleman a few metres away from this cache, hence the reason for placing here. Sadly, both these wonderful lines would, as far as passenger trains were concerned, fall under Beeching's axe and would be closed completely by the mid 1970s.