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…
New starter motor being fitted to Andrew Barclay ROF No. 578 locomotive at Washford. The ex-Royal Ordnance Factory shunter is owned by the West Somerset Railway and is on long-term hire to the Trust, the…
The West Somerset Railway's Autumn Steam Gala ran from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th October and featured a variety of locomotives. Here's a short video of the gala as seen from our Washford base on…
Busy day at Washford fitting steam heating to our Peckett 'Kilmersdon'. This will enable the locomotive to go on hire on passenger services at other heritage lines over the winter. All work has…