Hard-working Swanage Railway volunteers - who work to maintain and develop five stations on the Isle of Purbeck heritage line - are celebrating after winning ten awards for floral and neighbourhood excellence in a regional competition.

Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers are celebrating after their annual ‘Winter Warm Up’ steam and diesel weekend – the first special event held in the heritage line’s 50th anniversary year – attracted double the number of visitors compared to the previous event.

Two popular evening Christmas carol concert trains have brought festive joy and cheer to Corfe Castle’s Victorian station which has played host to a choir, a band and a talented teenager playing the evocative Scottish bagpipes.

An historic signing ceremony has taken place in a restored 1930s Maunsell heritage carriage at Corfe Castle station to mark a new era of important collaboration between Network Rail’s Wessex route and the Swanage Railway.

Swanage Station has been nominated in this year’s World Cup of Stations; but we need YOUR HELP!

Dedicated volunteers who help maintain and develop a community railway halt on the outskirts of Swanage are supporting a Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance appeal to raise the final £1 million for a second life-saving helicopter.

Six magnificent locomotives dating from the 1890s to the 1940s are to star in an historic three-day Autumn Steam Gala spectacular that takes place in the Isle of Purbeck from Friday, 12 September, to Sunday, 14 September, 2025, inclusive.

A ‘Sunset Shuttle’ summer evening heritage diesel train service connecting Swanage, Herston Halt, Harman’s Cross and Corfe Castle – Dorset’s most scenic evening out set to create golden memories for passengers - is being launched by dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers.

A poignant wooden memorial and a metal tribute plaque marking the important contribution of the Royal Corps of Signals to the development of the Swanage Railway across 40 years have been unveiled on the platform at Herston Halt.

Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers are to stage a nostalgic fund raising three-day ‘Roads to Rail’ steam rally next to Norden station near the village of Corfe Castle – bringing the Isle of Purbeck to life with evocative re-creations of a bygone age.

An historic Victorian brass horn reputed to have been blown to mark the departure of the first passenger train from Swanage to Corfe Castle and Wareham in May, 1885, has been sounded again at a 140th anniversary commemoration at Swanage station.

Tributes are being paid to former long-time dedicated Swanage Railway volunteer trustee and director Bill Trite who has died unexpectedly at the age of 77.

An Armed Forces Covenant has been signed by representatives from the Swanage Railway, Swanage Town Council and the Royal Corps of Signals at Blandford Forum in Dorset on the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (V.E.) Day.

Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers are to staff an information and recruitment stand marking the Rail 200 anniversary on the concourse at Waterloo station in London - thanks to help from Network Rail and South Western Railway.

An historic train named after a highly respected former British Rail Southern Region general manager who officially opened a new station on the Swanage Railway in the 1980s is to star in the heritage line’s annual nostalgic Diesel Gala and Beer Festival - along with eight classic 1960s diesel locomotives.

An historic Victorian brass horn reputed to have been blown to mark the departure of the first passenger train from Swanage to Corfe Castle and Wareham in May, 1885, is to be sounded again in a 140th anniversary ceremony at Swanage station.

A Victorian railway bridge carrying a little used part of the Swanage Railway has been repaired by specialist contractors after being damaged in a vehicle strike – work that took place thanks to a five-day road closure permitted by Dorset Council.

History will be made when a 1920s Great Western Railway ‘Hall’ class main line express locomotive visits the Swanage Railway for the first time as part of a six-engine passenger and freight train Spring Steam Gala taking place from Friday, 28 March, to Sunday, 30 March, 2025, inclusive.

Progressive Swanage Railway volunteers have appointed their first chief executive with the aim of developing and future proofing the Isle of Purbeck heritage line for generations to come.

Devoted Swanage Railway volunteers are to stage a fascinating two-day Community Weekend giving the public the opportunity to go behind the s