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The miniature railway station was originally named ‘Poole’ but the council were concerned that people wanting to go by rail to London (Waterloo) might turn up with their luggage at the miniature station by mistake, and asked for it to be renamed ‘Poole Park’ instead, which they did. In a letter of complaint to the Town Clerk dated May 1969, an agitated complainant described how, while visitors to the Park were feeding the ducks, the ‘train dashed through and killed one’. The writer and others ‘stared in horror’ and all that could be seen were ‘white feathers and white faces’. In fact it was a pigeon which, lured onto the track by bread through from the occupants of a parked car, narrowly escaped the engines wheels and merely lost a few tail feathers. By the late 1970s it was estimated that the trains had carried at least 5 million passengers.
