A new and evocative Coronavirus safe ‘Steam and Lights’ festive train service is to operate on the Swanage Railway during the run-up to...

Like many Railway societies The Purbeck Railway Circle is unable to hold Public Meetings because of the Covid-19 restrictions. We had...

Evocative paintings by a talented West Sussex artist are helping to raise money for the Swanage Railway’s ‘Save Our Service’ appeal to...

An urgent £360,000 ‘Save Our Service’ appeal to help the award-winning Swanage Railway survive in the wake of the economic effects of...

Steam trains are to resume on the award-winning Swanage Railway for the first time since mid-March – with Norden station re-opening to...

Resumption of Services The Railway’s special public summer train service commenced on Saturday 11th July 2020, fully compliant with the...

The Swanage Railway is to re-open with a special fund-raising train service protecting the health of passengers and staff – socially...

Dedicated Swanage volunteers have produced two new fund-raising videos giving a revealing insight into the devastating effect of the...

The daughter of the man who saved the world’s most famous locomotive – ‘Flying Scotsman’ – from the scrapyard in the 1960s is asking the...

The public can now donate by text to the Swanage Railway’s £360,000 ‘Save Our Service’ appeal which has so far raised £152,001 to help...

The Swanage Railway has launched an urgent appeal for donations to help the award-winning heritage line – which contributes more than £15...

The Board of the Swanage Railway met on Thursday 19th March to consider the current Coronavirus/Covid-19 situation and the impact on the...

All Meetings and Outings have been Cancelled until September 2020. Meetings for the next few months have been cancelled because of the...

Our next meeting is on Friday 13th March, when Ken Mumford will deliver a PowerPoint presentation on The Devon Belle. The Devon Belle (an...

An important milestone has been achieved at the end of the first week of the Swanage Carriage Shed Appeal: a total of £10,964 has already...

All four DMU vehicles that make up the mainline fleet for services from the Swanage branch to Wareham have now returned to the Swanage...

Four refurbished DMU vehicles have returned to the Swanage Railway following an extensive overhaul at Eastleigh works. The vehicles...

Our next meeting is on Friday 14th February, when Brian Jackson will deliver a presentation entitled "Paddling across the Bay: Paddle...

The Swanage Railway Trust has launched an appeal to raise funds towards the building of a new shed for the storage and protection of its...

A unique and remarkable Victorian book of land surveyor’s drawings has revealed how the branch line from Wareham to Corfe Castle and...