Trains From Swanage to Wareham One Step Closer

07/02/2012

Trains to Wareham One Step Closer with BP to Pay For a £500,000 Level Crossing Near Corfe Castle Regular trains from Swanage to Wareham are one step closer with oil giant BP announcing that it is to pay for the construction and maintenance of a crucial £500,000 level crossing on the award-winning Swanage Railway just north of Corfe Castle. Swanage Railway supporters have been campaigning to re-instate a regular train service between Swanage and Wareham after the last British Rail train controversially ran between the two Purbeck towns on New Year's Day 1972.

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Police Appeal to Trace Wanted Man

06/02/2012 POLICE in Lancashire are appealing for information about a man who is wanted on prison recall. David Kean, 40, whose last known address was Olive Lane, Darwen was originally jai ...  read more...

Gypsy and Traveller Consultation Comes to an End

06/02/2012 Friday 10th February sees the end of the Gypsy and Traveller consultation in Dorset. The consultation involves all of Dorset’s councils, including the unitaries of Bournemouth an ...  read more...

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