The Swanage Railway is one of 445 heritage organisations across the country set to receive a life-saving financial boost from the...

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...

This update by Peter Short was originally written for summer edition of Swanage Railway News but did not appear because of the disruption...

The pandemic has impacted the Sygnets just as much as other groups on the Swanage Railway. Whilst it now seems a long time ago, the year...

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...

Due to a period of extremely heavy rain it was necessary to halt the foundation construction in late February because of very poor ground...

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

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, Sygnets meetings are temporarily suspended, but we very much hope that activities can resume as soon as...

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...