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A steam train and a motor coach have collided at a level-crossing on the Swanage Railway in Dorset. A steam train carrying a party of school children has collided with a motor coach at a level-crossing on the Swanage Railway in Dorset.
The driver of the coach was seriously injured and trapped underneath the wreckage, a spokeswoman for Dorset Fire and Rescue said. The 52-year-old driver of the coach, who is from Swanage, was flown to hospital with serious injuries.
No-one else was believed to be on the 52-seater coach at the time of the crash, which happened at 1230 BST. The school children and the train driver were unhurt in the crash which happened at about 1230 BST.
The incident took place at Quarr crossing near Harman's Cross, south of Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck. It happened at Quarr crossing near Harman's Cross, south of Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck.
Police, fire and ambulance services have been at the scene.Police, fire and ambulance services have been at the scene.
The driver was freed by the Dorset Fire and Rescue Service at 1310 BST and taken by air ambulance to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. Unmanned crossing
About 30 passengers on the private Swanage steam train were believed to have been unhurt but shocked. The coach driver was freed by the Dorset Fire and Rescue Service at 1310 BST after being trapped under the wreckage.
It is not known how the coach and the steam train collided but the level crossing is unmanned. He was then flown to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester.
Ch Insp Rick Dowell, of Dorset Police, said: "A comprehensive forensic investigation is now taking place.
"It is too early to provide any definitive cause for the collision."
It is known however that the level crossing is unmanned.
Arrangements were being made to remove the four rear-most carriages of the train and tow them back to Swanage railway station using another steam train.