Tickets for Brake Van Rides during our Autumn Steam Gala are now available from our website! 🎟️ Brake Van Rides offer a different travel experience compared to our enclosed coaches, which means you get to feel the wind through your hair and watch our steam locomotives hard at work as they travel along the line! This year’s Autumn Steam Gala which is taking place between the 12th and 14th of September will see a slightly different timetable for our Brake Van Rides as they will start and finish a

Visitors to the Swanage Railway over the next two days will be able to take in the sights sounds and smells of steam once again as U Class locomotive 31806 is out and about working a number of training trains for our volunteers, to ensure that everyone is ready for the return of steam passenger trains from Saturday! Our passenger trains today and tomorrow will be in the hands of one of our faithful Class 33 locomotives, with 33111 doing the honours today. Anyone looking to enjoy a ride behind on

563 makes her first journey to Swanage under her own steam! Thanks to the amazing efforts by all the staff and volunteers that were involved at Herston, the work on the coupling rods and other fettling jobs has been completed and 563 arrived back at Norden yesterday. A fire was lit and today we were able to make history with 563’s first trip along our railway under her own power! We’re sure you’re as exicited as us to see 563 return to service and we’ve just announced our first running dates for

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3.4K views · 260 reactions | Having popped up to the local model railway show, I managed to catch SR U Class “31806” departs Harmans Cross with 1330 service from Swanage to Nordon. | Southern Steam Lad Photography | Facebook