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

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

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

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

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 been donated by Tru...

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

Four refurbished DMU vehicles have returned to the Swanage Railway following an extensive overhaul at Eastleigh works. The vehicles comprise a three car clas...

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

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 carriage fleet – inc...

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

Our next meeting is on Friday 10th January, when Jim Boudreau will deliver a presentation entitled "Maids of All Work: The SR Moguls”. From the first patent ...

An innovative signalling system enabling trains to run from Swanage to the national railway network has won a national award

Our next meeting is on Friday 15th November, when Martyn Pring will deliver a presentation entitled "Luxury Railway Travel: A Social and Business History”. R...

Our next meeting is on Friday 18th November and held in conjunction with the Purbeck Film Festival. The evening will feature two railway themed presentations...

The 2019 Swanage Railway Trust Annual General Meeting takes place on Saturday 19th October in the Mowlem Theatre, Swanage

An ambitious appeal has been launched to raise £350,000 to return a unique Victorian steam locomotive – that escaped the scrapman's torch thanks to the cente...

Our next meeting is on Friday 13th September, when Mike Walshaw will deliver a presentation entitled "The Swanage Railway's Project Wareham”. Mike will be a...

Our next meeting is on Friday 21st June, when John Baxter of the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust will give his presentation “Midsomer Norton rises f...

On Friday April 12th, Colin Stone will take us on “A Wander round the West Country”. His Imaginary Visual Rail Tour takes us from Poole via Bath, Bristol, W...

On Friday 8th February 2019 Kevin Patience will give his presentation “Building the Lunatic Line”. The “Lunatic Line” was the political name of the Uganda R...