Dorchester Group’s February Meeting
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…
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A wide variety of content makes for a great read in our latest magazine
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 S&DRT takes its photographic collection online
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…
Plenty to see at our 2018 Edington Model Railway Exhibition!
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…
S&DRT Dorchester Area Group celebrates 30 years and 300 meetings
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…
November Dorchester Area Group Meeting
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…
Free current magazine with our latest edition S&D booklet.
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…
Recent work on ex-Royal Ordnance Factory shunter at Washford
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 WSR Autumn Steam Gala
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…