TRAIN enthusiasts and volunteers at Swanage Railway rang in the new year with a special event marking 200 years of railway ...

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 ...

GWR Prairie 4144 will be among the locomotives joining the whistle-up Heritage locomotives across the south of England will be joining in a worldwide "whistle-up" to mark 200 years of passenger rail ...

Steam power will take centre stage in a celebration of heritage and engineering. Swanage Railway volunteers are organising a three-day Roads to Rail steam rally, set to take place from Friday, June 27 ...

"This is a piece of history that will never repeat itself," said rail historian Blaine Hays, on a recent tour of the collection. "The beginnings of public transportation will only happen once." The ...

Swanage Railway volunteers have celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the heritage line's first passenger train journey to Corfe Castle and Norden. The rebuilding of two-and-a-half miles of line ...

Class 24 No. D5054 Phil Southern is among the visiting locomotives Nine heritage diesel locomotives are gathering for a "diesel gala" at a heritage railway line in Dorset. The annual event at the ...