Andrew Pm Wright News Today

THE WORLD famous steam locomotive ‘Flying Scotsman’ has arrived on the Swanage Railway for an historic three-week visit.

Three poignant gatherings to remember and honour are to be held at a windswept memorial to the Tarrant Rushton airfield - between Blandford and…

THREE years and a £350,000 makeover later, a 1940s steam train has returned to the tracks. A classic 1940s express steam locomotive has returned to Swanage Railway after an extensive £350,000 overhaul by its owners - Southern Locomotives Limited - which restored Eddystone from a rusting scrapyard hulk to a gleaming machine. On Monday, the 96-tonne train was taken by road from the Swanage Railways engineering works at Herston, near Swanage but not rail connected, to the heritage railways...

When in British Railways service during the 1950s and 1960s, the locomotive was based at Bournemouth and hauled trains on the London to Weymouth line as well as the Somerset and Dorset line between Broadstone, Blandford Forum, Templecombe and Bath. Minus its coal and water tender, the  96-tonne machine was transported by road transporter on April 26, from Herston to the heritage railway’s road-rail interchange, west of Norden station, where it was towed by rail the five-and-a-half miles to S...