Device ALT      05/08

An Army bomb disposal team has made safe an explosive device dating from the Victorian age – found in a railway cutting close to the Swanage railway line at Corfe Castle.

It's thought to be 126 years old – dating from 1884 when railway workers were constructing the railway line.

A member of the railway's track maintenance team discovered the device - it was made safe in a 90 minute operation - hundreds of thousands of trains have run past the spot since the line was built.