Chris Evans in Monkey World Monkey World was very pleased to welcome Chris Evans and his ‘Magnificent 7’ Ferraris once again this year, as part of his Drive & Dine charity fundraising event.  Day one of the four-day trip saw 7 lucky drivers and guests taking a tour of the south in 7 vintage Ferraris owned by Chris Evans himself and friends.  The drivers were selected by way of an auction,... 

Swanage Railway SPECIAL TREATS AND INTENSIVE TRAIN SERVICES THROUGH THE PURBECKS MAKE FOR A CRACKING EASTER WEEKEND Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers have a cracking four-day Easter Bank Holiday weekend in store – with free tasty treats for travelling passengers and an intensive heritage steam train service through the Purbecks. Between Good Friday, 22 April 2011, and Bank Holiday Monday, 25... 

Mad Hatters in Swanage swanage pier trust writes: Don’t be late for the Mad Hatters Tea Party, Alice and her friends invite you all, to join them for a Free afternoon of magic, mayhem and fun at Swanage Pier’s first ever Mad Hatters Tea Party On Saturday 12th March, as part of this years British Tourism Week. Swanage Pier were last years runners up in the National Pier Society “Pier... 

Swanage Railway by Andrew P.M. Wright Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers start running their festive fund-raising ‘Santa Special’ steam trains – on the award-winning relaid Purbeck Line to Corfe Castle and Norden ‘park and ride’ – this Saturday, 4 December 2010. By the end of Christmas Eve, the 36 Yuletide trains will have run a total of 432 miles – the equivalent distance from the... 

New Turntable NETWORK RAIL DONATES LARGE LOCOMOTIVE TURNTABLE FROM LONDON TRAIN DEPOT TO THE SWANAGE RAILWAY A rare 26-ton locomotive turntable, set for demolition as part of the building of a new £15.9 billion railway line across London, has been saved and donated to the Swanage Railway – for a new working life on the award-winning relaid Purbeck Line. The large 70-foot electrically operated steel...