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Santa arrived in style at Shillingstone Station on Sunday December 14th, on board newly-refurbished steam locomotive 30075, its first official duty since the engine completed its 10 year restoration programme.Santa was met on the platform by Mrs San ...

On Saturday 6 December Project 62’s steam locomotive 30075 was brought out of the workshop. If all goes to plan it will be warmed up on Saturday 13th, and on Sunday 14th will steam to the station platform, its first official duty since complet ...

In spite of the driving rain, Saturday 22nd November was a great day for the Permanent Way team, when a locomotive crossed Lamb House Bridge for the first time in nearly 60 years. The last to run over the bridge, in 1966, was ...

Project 62’s newly restored eight plank wagon came out of the workshop shelter, totally transformed, and their locomotive 30075 went back in for a few weeks of cosmetic attention. All of which required a complicated set of manoeuvres, with many oth ...

Having been moved to the loading dock the previous weekend, the Esso tanker was winched onto a low-loader in preparation for its journey to the Great Central Railway at Loughborough, where it will join a collection of similar tankers. It had been at ...

The station hosted the annual visit of FRARS, the Flight Refuelling Amateur Radio Society, who set up their transmitter in the signal box and contacted other similarly occupied heritage railway signal boxes. ...

Volunteers and guests attended the formal opening of the track extension and car park. The station’s youngest long-serving volunteer, 13 year old Joe Bond, green-flagged NDR’s diesel loco which cut through the traditional ribbon, followed by the ...

30075, Project 62’s steam loco, was shunted onto the north siding, clearing the Up line and making way for NDR’s diesel engine to run onto the new extension, the first powered loco north of Shillingstone Station since March 1966. ...

Dorset Council granted NDR planning permission to change from being a museum to becoming an operational railway. It’s a major first step towards carrying passengers, but there’s a lot still to do! Quite rightly, we’ll have to convince the Offic ...

30075, one of the ‘Yankee Tank’ steam locomotives being restored by the Project 62 group at Shillingstone Station, achieved its boiler certificate. The 1960 engine, built in Yugoslavia to an American design, had done service at many heritage rail ...

A railway coach dating to the 1880s was brought to the station. It is thought to have been withdrawn from service on the S&D in the 1930s, and somehow ended up as a changing room at a tennis club. It was rescued by a railway buff who installed it ...

The Wickham Trolley began a programme of engine-tuning, brake testing and driver training. A similar trolley – used for carrying track inspection personnel – was based at the station until its closure, but this 1959 model came to Shillingstone in ...