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The Trustees are pleased to report that another important milestone for the railway has been achieved.The NDR now has the required permissions to run passenger trains from the Office of Rail and Road and our status has been added to the ORR website a ...

A one-off Wickham railbus arrived at Shillingstone this morning. It is set to become an important addition to NDR’s rolling stock when it goes into service as a 48-seater coach, but it didn’t start life carrying passengers, and that is wha ...

NDR’s brake van has emerged into the daylight for the first time in many years. Built in 1950 and withdrawn from service in 1977, it was bought by NDR in October 2017, but did not go into the workshop until December 2019. The cabin prove ...

Shillingstone’s station canopy is in poor condition and needs remedial work. North Dorset Railway has submitted a bid to the National Heritage Lottery Fund for funds for conservation work. Fingers crossed! ...

Project 62’s restored ‘Yankee Tank’ steam loco left Shillingstone Station on Monday 8th June. It has gone for a while to the Plym Valley Railway, in Devon, where a longer track allows for additional testing. ...

Bookings are now being taken for a special Fathers’Day Ploughman’s Lunch at Shillingstone Station, just for dads and their families, on 21stJune at 2.00pm. There’ll be a choice of either ham or cheese (two sorts), with all the traditional ac ...

On May 10th, NDR held its Annual General Meeting at Durweston Village Hall. Chairman Gavin Collins reviewed the past year and thanked the volunteers (160 of them had clocked up nearly 30,000 hours of work, both on and off site in 2025). Looking ahead ...

The ever-popular Mother’s Day special tea was a sell-out success at the station today. Guests enjoyed freshly-made finger sandwiches, scones with jam and clotted cream, and a choice of home-made cakes, all served on fine bone china in the Mk1 ...

Despite grey skies, Shillingstone Station was in fine spirits over the weekend, marking the 60thanniversary since the ‘closure’ of the station. Visitors came from far and wide to join the commemoration, with Project 62 inviting families to climb ...

In a new year’s message, NDR chairman Gavin Collins says ‘The new year is always a great time to look forward and 2026 promises to be as exciting as 2025’. He lays out NDR’s current priorities for the year: to prepare for running passenger se ...

As 2025 draws to a close I'd like to thank our volunteers, members and all the supporters and visitors who make possible the development and enhancement of the railway and station.This year we have been able to make significant progress: Signing ...

And just to round off the 200th anniversary year with yet another 'first', the Wickham Trolley advanced across Lamb House Bridge and then went all the way to the Cattle Creep buffer stop, the first powered rail vehicle to go the full length of the n ...