SWANAGE railway will be celebrating their fifty years anniversary with special event featuring five heritage locomotives.

On 3rd and 4th January, the Swanage Railway is holding a ‘Winter Warm Up’ steam and diesel weekend as the first event of its ...

Volunteers who work to maintain and develop five stations on the Isle of Purbeck heritage line have received ten awards for ...

Volunteers at the Swanage Railway in Dorset have won ten awards for floral and neighbourhood excellence in a regional ...

Swanage Railway volunteer Zac Hopkins does not know how to explain his captivation with heritage railways. "There's just something fascinating about them," he said. "The sounds, the sights, the smells ...

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Full steam ahead for new connectivity project at Swanage Railway. Credit: Dorset Council. Dorset Council has received £163,000 ($210,516) in government funding to test the UK’s first WiFi-connected ...

For several months starting in late 1943, American soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division made their home away from home in Swanage, England, living and training there before leaving to invade ...

An investigation has been launched after a restored diesel locomotive partially derailed from a heritage railway line during a festival in Dorset. Evening diesel gala and beer festival train services ...

Evening diesel gala and beer festival train services on the Swanage Railway heritage line were suspended on Saturday after a diesel locomotive partially derailed at Corfe Castle station (Andrew ...