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Here are our illustrated news pages each devoted to a particular aspect of recent activity on the Swanage Railway.

SOUTH DORSET MP VISITS THE SWANAGE RAILWAY WHICH CONTRIBUTES £14 MILLION A YEAR TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY!

Published: 21st April, 2014 READ MORE

RARE 1940s SOUTHERN RAILWAY COACHES RUN TO CORFE CASTLE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1966 – THANKS TO 22,000 HOURS OF WORK!

Published: 20th April, 2014 READ MORE

FIRST EVER CLASSIC 1960s BRITISH RAILWAYS CLASS 35 'HYMEK' DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE TO RUN ON THE SWANAGE RAILWAY

Published: 3rd April, 2014 READ MORE

SECOND WORLD WAR LUFTWAFFE ATTACK SURVIVOR TO STAR IN FIRST EVER SWANAGE RALWAY SPRING STEAM GALA - Saturday & Sunday, 5 & 6 April, 2014

Published: 30th March, 2014 READ MORE

Waterloo to Exeter main line trains from the 1960s to the 1980s to be re-created on the Swanage Railway

Published: 20th March, 2014 READ MORE

Fireman Sam to visit the Swanage Railway - making it the hottest place to be!

Andrew P.M. Wright

Fireman Sam to visit The Swanage Railway - Making it the hottest place to be!

Published: 17th March, 2014 READ MORE

SWT driver Pete Burton and commemorative mug for the Class 159 'Dorset Dominator' excursion from London to the Swanage Railway which ran on 26th October 2013

Andrew P.M. Wright.

The Swanage Lifeboatman Railtour to visit Swanage from Salisbury and the South Coast

Published: 17th March, 2014 READ MORE

A classic Victorian T9 class steam locomotive - 30120 - has arrived on the Swanage Railway for the first time in more than 20 years.

Andrew P.M. Wright

Classic Victorian steam locomotive brings the London & South Western Railway to Purbeck

Published: 13th March, 2014 READ MORE

History to be made with two rare 1940s Bulleid carriages running to Corfe Castle for the first time since 1966

Published: 11th March, 2014 READ MORE

First London & South Western Railway weekend takes the Isle of Purbeck back to Victorian times.

Published: 4th March, 2014 READ MORE

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