News Archive: August 2025

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 ...