The Trust has recently purchased a MkI passenger brake van from the West Somerset Railway Association. The 1956-built BG [brake gangwayed] vehicle will provide a 56ft length of exhibition space, enabling existing exhibits to be…
In our latest online release of images from our extensive collection, we have added over 70 images taken at or near Evercreech New station – including no less than 34 pictures of double-headed express passenger…
The February meeting of the Dorchester Area Group will take place in the Colliton Club, Dorchester at 7.30 on February 28th. The speaker will be John Chappell who will give an illustrated talk on “Travels…
The Winter issue of our magazine has 40 pages – including sales supplement – with plenty of great S&D reading. Make sure of your copy – and all of next year's quarterly copies – by…
The Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust has 3000 S&D images in its archive and over 80 are now available in our online shop for immediate download. Many hundreds more have already been scanned and will…
The S&DRT's 2018 Model Railway Exhibition is at Edington once again on Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th January. You'll have no time to take down the festive decorations that weekend with no less than…
This year has already seen one significant 30th anniversary marked – that of the return to steam of our restored S&D 7F, No. 53808 – only to be followed by another: 30 years of the…
The November meeting of the Dorchester area group will take place in the Dorset Room of the Colliton Club, Dorchester at 7.30 on the 24th. The speaker will be Brian Jackson who will be giving…
We've recently reprinted our great intro. to the S&D, a 48-page A5 booklet full of archive photos and an excellent read. It's great value at £2.50 but to tempt you further, we'll add a current…