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The Annual General Meeting of the North Dorset railway was held at 10.00am on Sunday 21st May2023 at Durweston Village Hall. 42 members and one non member (acting as a proxy) attended. The minutes of the meeting will be made available to volunteers i ...

Fine weekend weather allowed us to resume earthworks on the tennis court embankment North of Lamb House bridge. We also conducted a level survey to establish the amount of spoil necessary to bring the trackbed up to the required height. ...

A busy weekend at the station as we loaded and transported 1500 feet of rail (enough for 250 yards of track) from the stockpile at the southern end of the site up into the yard, ready for use on the extension. We now have enough rail in position at t ...

It was too wet for earthworks at the weekend so the PWay team took the opportunity to complete the majority of the ballasting of the down line through the station. 40 Tonnes of stone was expertly placed by the team of loco drivers, shunters, diggerdr ...

The Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust and the North Dorset Railway, Shillingstone are pleased to announce that a formal loan agreement has been reached which will lead to some of the S&DRT's rolling stock and some museum exhibits being transfer ...

Excavation of the disused badger sett on the route of the new trackbed to the North of the station started today, closely supervised by our Consultant Ecologist who guided the excavation in accordance with the licence granted by Natural England. Ther ...

Good progress was made at the weekend levelling the trackbed south of the bridge. We now have a 90m length of the embankment at the correct levels with the surplus spoil in situ just south of the bridge awaiting spreading and rolling. The major remai ...

The PWay gang endured the hot weather over the weekend and made good progress with the re-profiling of the tennis court embankment. Here are some of Saturday's photos: it's really starting to take shape now. More fill was deposited on Sunday and spre ...

A very busy weekend at Shillingstone with the Classic Vehicles event. Lots of visitors came to see the wide range of classic vehicles and also enjoyed the chance to see the fantastic progress that Project 62 have made in restoring 30075. There was li ...

More fine weather over the weekend allowed the earthworks for the tennis court embankment to progress well. We estimate that we have spread and compacted about 50% of the required fill, so there is still some way to go, but we are well on schedule fo ...

We are delighted to announce that three volunteers have successfully completed their driver/shunter training. We are now able to use our diesel shunter "Ashdown" to facilitate rolling stock movements around our site which will greatly assist in the d ...

We have now moved the public on to the realigned Trailway. Thanks to favourable weather, this has been achieved six weeks ahead of schedule. The response from the public has been very positive- the new route is a great improvement. There is some land ...