Parts of the line serving Wells and Bridgwater had already closed in the 1950s then, on 7 March 1966, the whole Somerset and ...

It has been 60 years since the final locomotive steamed along the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The line ran between ...

The historic line ran between Bath in Somerset and Bournemouth in Dorset [Julian Peters] For more than a century the Somerset and Dorset Railway (S&D) served as a lifeline for rural communities - ...

Emotions ran high as a coffin with the message 'S&D died today' was loaded on to S&D Railway's last service train in March 1966 The 50th anniversary of the closing of the Somerset and Dorset Railway ...

Bob Downes was 19 when he began working as a porter at Shillingstone station in 1962, before training as a signalman. "There was always a busyness about the station, I miss it so much," he says of his ...

FIFTY years ago, the railway line that brought thousands of people to Bournemouth for their holidays was shut for good. Those holiday trains were far from the only purpose of the Somerset & Dorset ...

240-mile steam service was the lifeline connecting the industrial heartlands of Manchester and the Midlands to the golden beaches of the South Coast, ...

A lengthy stretch of Somerset's "forgotten railway" has reopened to the public as a stunning walking and cycling route, connecting Shepton Mallet to the neighbouring villages. The Somerset and Dorset ...