Emergency services were called to a crash involving a car and a dropside lorry on the A352 between Wareham and East Stoke this morning, January 16.
Police officers shut the road while the incident was dealt with.
One person was treated for injuries, ho…
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The appeal is aimed at boosting the financial reserves of the Swanage Railway through the early months of 2024
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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 …
45596 Bahamas will be on the mainline this Wednesday, 2nd July 2023, as it hauls a London[1] to Weymouth[2] tour.
Departing London Victoria[3] at 08:45, Bahamas will pass through Clapham Junction[4] (09:03), Brentford[5] (09:13), Staines[6] (09:32), Wo…
A number of cows had to be rescued from the trailer of the overturned lorry on the Bakers Arms Roundabout.
The roundabout and a section of road heading towards Poole wete closed for most of the evening as several recovery vehicles attempted to deal wi…
Emergency crews raced to the scene at the Bakers Arms Roundabout just after 6pm yesterday.
Road closures were put in place before the trapped animals could be freed from the overturned trailer.
The roundabout and a section of road heading towards Pool…
‘We heard banging from the cattle’: Livestock lorry overturns on roundabout (Image: Daily Echo)
A LORRY carrying livestock overturned on a busy roundabout along the A35 yesterday evening.
A number of cows had to be rescued from the trailer of a lor…
Police and Fire services are at the scene where a lorry has been seen well alight, with a large smoke cloud coming from the vehicle.
The lorry driver is being treated by the ambulance service for suspected smoke inhalation.
The A352 Wareham Road is par…
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…
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…
“On Sunday, April 2, at 12:25am, Officer Matias and Officer Connolly were dispatched to Mattapoisett Rd after the Regional Old Colony Communications Center received an Apple Crash Notification with no response from the operator.
Upon arrival, the offic…
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…