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We are delighted to announce that, following the meeting of Dorset Council's Northern area Planning Committee yesterday, we have been granted planning permission to build a new car park in the Pumphouse field, subject to a number of conditions. This ...

The metalwork for the point into the P62 shelter was completed on Saturday with the installation of the check rails, allowing "tramlining" work to commence. This should be completed by next weekend and has the twin benefits of allowing extra carparki ...

Lots of volunteers hard at it today. The Pway team were fitting the rest of the screws to the point chairs. The signallers constructed the board walk over the pulleys outside the signal box and fitted the mechanical interlocking to levers 12 and 13. ...

We completed the laying of the point connection to the P62 shelter this weekend. The next stage is to "tramline" the tracks so that our car park can be extended. Tramlining will involve laying ballastto top of sleeper level followedby a layer of free ...

With Dorset Council approval, coring tests were carried out on Lamb House Bridge yesterday by an independent specialist firm. This was necessary in order to determine the thickness of the brickwork skin overlayingthe main arch of the bridge. This inf ...

We are very sad to announce the death of Terry England a.k.a. Wurzel who has been a long standing member of the NDR and a resident at Shillingstone Station for many years. He was an enthusiastic volunteer in the early years and played a lar ...

Nearly there! The newly reinstated embankment north of Lamb House Bridge is now at the correct levels and is structurally complete, two weeks ahead of schedule. This has involved moving over 1500 Tonnes of material (in excess of 500 dumper loads), sp ...

Fantastic progress on the GUV. Lettering and lining is now being applied on the outside and the insulation has been fitted to the inside walls.It will provide a great location for the model railways at our Shillingstone Station 160th Anniversary even ...

Metaphorically "full steam ahead" at the weekend, with all resources employed to make use of the window of good weather. The embankment north of the bridge is nearing its required height over muchof its length - there is still some height to be gaine ...

Fine weather on Saturday allowed further progress to be made on the reconstruction of the embankment north of Lamb House Bridge. A level survey was undertaken and the horizontal alignment of the track was set out to tie in with the existing Cattle Cr ...

Today we were pleased to be able to unload the S&DJR dray (or more correctly in the horse world "trolley") which arrived from Washford in the CCT. A scaffolding platform was built next to the down platform to allow it to be rolled out forwards an ...

Work continued, in between the weekend showers, on the rebuilding of the embankment north of Lamb House Bridge. We also installed the first section of the permanent railway fence at the base of the western slope. Once this had been done, the remainde ...