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

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

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 th...

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...

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 co...

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 Ra...

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

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

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 Swan...

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

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 ...

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

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