Dorset residents will be able to buy half-price Community Weekend standard travel ... These include: Members of the public can also use their website to book visits to the Railway’s steam locomotive ...

The Somerset & Dorset’s main locomotive works were at Highbridge ... Credit: RailAdvent Looking more like diesel shunters than steam locomotives, the small locomotives on the left were purchased from ...

Push-pull diesel trains have not run on the Corfe Castle to Swanage line since 1971. The Spa Valley Railway needs £300,000 to replace a Victorian bridge which has become badly corroded. The Flying ...

DEDICATED volunteers have launched an appeal to raise £20,000. This is to complete the restoration of a historic TC carriage which will enable a 1960s British Rail ‘push-pull’ diesel train to ...

Southampton, in those days, was a hub of railway activity. Steam engines, like iron horses, constantly pulled in and out of the station, their whistles echoing through the city. The sidings ...

These include the Dorset Open Network Ecosystem (DONE) project and the UK's first WiFi-connected steam train on the Swanage ...

push-pull diesel trains operated between Bournemouth and Weymouth from the end of main line steam trains in 1967 to the start of electric trains in 1988. The carriages, pulled or pushed by a Class ...

Dedicated volunteers have launched an appeal to raise £20,000 to complete the restoration of an historic TC carriage that will enable a 1960s British Rail ‘push-pull’ diesel train to run from ...

Andrew PM Wright The trains were a familiar sight in the 1970s and 80s TC (trailer control) push-pull diesel trains operated between Bournemouth and Weymouth from the end of main line steam trains ...

Often overlooked, GTW was the last railroad in the U.S. to employ steam daily in four types of regular service Grand Trunk Western steam provided a last look for many Midwest railfans. Soon after I ...

‘Problems’ at a level crossing have been causing delays to Dorset trains. South Western Railway trains between Wool and Moreton have been running at a reduced speed this morning due to the ...