Purbeck Railway Circle: Meetings Cancelled
All Meetings and Outings have been Cancelled until September 2020. Meetings for the next few months have been cancelled because of the...
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Andy Vincent
Feb 24, 2020
Purbeck Railway Circle March Meeting
Our next meeting is on Friday 13th March, when Ken Mumford will deliver a PowerPoint presentation on The Devon Belle. The Devon Belle (an...
Andy Vincent
Feb 20, 2020
Carriage Shed Appeal Passes £10,000 Mark
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...
Andy Vincent
Feb 18, 2020
Project Wareham DMU Fleet Assembled at Corfe Castle
All four DMU vehicles that make up the mainline fleet for services from the Swanage branch to Wareham have now returned to the Swanage...
Andy Vincent
Feb 12, 2020
Class 117 DMBS Delivered for Project Wareham
Four refurbished DMU vehicles have returned to the Swanage Railway following an extensive overhaul at Eastleigh works. The vehicles...
Andy Vincent
Feb 4, 2020
Purbeck Railway Circle February Meeting
Our next meeting is on Friday 14th February, when Brian Jackson will deliver a presentation entitled "Paddling across the Bay: Paddle...
Andrew P.M. Wright
Feb 4, 2020
Swanage Carriage Shed Appeal Launched
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...
Andrew P.M. Wright
Jan 29, 2020
Remarkable Book of Land Surveyor's Drawings Reveal the Building of the Swanage Railway
A unique and remarkable Victorian book of land surveyor’s drawings has revealed how the branch line from Wareham to Corfe Castle and...
Andrew P.M. Wright
Jan 6, 2020
Purbeck Railway Circle January Meeting
Our next meeting is on Friday 10th January, when Jim Boudreau will deliver a presentation entitled "Maids of All Work: The SR Moguls”....
Andrew P.M. Wright
May 16, 2017
Former Dorset High Sheriff appointed a Patron of The Swanage Railway Trust
A former High Sheriff of Dorset – whose Victorian ancestors helped to bring and build the first railway line into the county from...
Andrew P.M. Wright
Mar 30, 2017
Unique Victorian Steam Locomotive Donated to the Swanage Railway unveiled in front of its Designer
A unique Victorian steam locomotive that escaped the scrapman's torch, thanks to the centenary of London's Waterloo station almost 50...
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