The Morebus Breezer and New Forest Tour services received a premium journey ratingUNLIMITED travel by sea, road and rail across some of the most scenic places in Dorset can now be bought on one ticket.Morebus has teamed up with City Cruises and the Swa…
The appeal is aimed at boosting the financial reserves of the Swanage Railway through the early months of 2024
Author: Jo SymesPublished 11 minutes ago
An appeal to raise £450,000 has been launched by the Swanage Railway Trust to help save the Dorset h…
The Swanage[1] Railway Trust has launched an appeal to raise £450,000 to help save the heritage line in Dorset[2].
The Railway is facing increasing running costs and falling passenger numbers, which are adversely affecting its finances. Its ‘Save Your …
Last year’s Roads to Rail steam rally. Andrew PM Wright
Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers are to stage a nostalgic fundraising steam rally – bringing the Isle of Purbeck to life with evocative recreations of a bygone age.
Featuring up to 50 tracti…
Next weekend, as part of its third annual ‘Roads to Rail’ event, Swanage[1] Railway volunteers are holding a nostalgic fund-raising steam rally next to Norden[2] station near the village of Corfe Castle[3].
Between Friday, 23rd June and Sunday, 25th Ju…
Trainspotter Francis Bourgeois (middle) was at Corfe Castle station on Sunday where he posed for pictures with fellow railway enthusiasts. Also pictured: Swanage Railway volunteers George Miller (left) and Sam Smith (right). (Image: Swanage Railway)A D…
Next week, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway[1] (GWSR) is running three days of ‘Southern Mid-Week Services’ from Tuesday, 16th to Thursday, 18th May.
Services will be hauled by the railway’s resident Southern Railway rebuilt Merchant Navy…
Editor Richard Clinnick reveals what you’ll find in the May issue of Rail Express later this month.
Credit: Tom McAtee
Another busy month has passed in the Rail Express office, and again it’s been a hectic month reporting on the ever-changing railway…
A Swanage Railway volunteer who travelled on the last British Rail train from Swanage to Wareham as a child in 1972 will be the conductor driver on the first Swanage Railway passenger train into Wareham using the heritage line’s 1950s diesel train.
P…
Sandbanks chain ferry suspends services because of ‘bad weather’ (Image: Daily Echo)
THE Sandbanks chain ferry has suspended its services this morning as wind continues to batter parts of Dorset.
A combination of bad weather, high winds and tides l…