TikTok star Francis Bourgeois has stepped in to support the reopening of one of the South West's most striking railway landmarks.
Visitors will be able to walk onto the Cannington Viaduct near Lyme Regis this weekend for the first time since the Axminster to Lyme Regis line closed in 1965.
Railway enthusiast and engineer Bourgeois, who has 3.5m followers on TikTok, visited the viaduct ahead of its reopening which will take place at sold-out events on Saturday and Sunday.
Standing on the structure, Bourgeois said it was "a very rare opportunity" and "to see the view that those who would have travelled on the train would have seen is quite special".
The concrete viaduct, which was built in 1903, carried trains high above the valley between Uplyme and Combpyne, bringing holidaymakers to the Dorset coast before the line was closed when it was deemed uneconomical.
Bourgeois, who has built a huge online following through his passion for railways, said trains had been part of his life since he was a toddler.
"I love everything about it. I love its linearity, I love the sounds, I love the variety, I love what it means to us in our country and around the world," he said.
Bourgeois also praised the viaduct itself, describing the structure as "stunning". He said that although concrete was often considered "quite an ugly kind of abrasive building material", the way it had been used at Cannington was "quite the opposite".
He added: "It makes me feel proud that we've been able to build something like this that has stood for 100-plus years."
The reopening has also brought together descendants of the people who built the railway.
Simon Pain, great-grandson of engineer Arthur C Pain, said one of the viaduct's most remarkable features was the way it had been constructed without scaffolding and explained workers built it "two feet at a time" using shuttering boxes filled with concrete carried by an overhead cableway.
Payne described his great-grandfather as "a buccaneering, late Victorian civil engineer, afraid of nobody".
He also highlighted one of the viaduct's most distinctive features, a section supported by a brick arch.
Payne explained that the ground beneath part of the structure had sunk and the arch was built as a repair. He said: "As you can see, it's all still there, so it plainly did the job."
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