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Visit to Swanage Railway  Wednesday 21st June 2023

A visit to Swanage Railway  for ride through the scenic Isle of Purbeck to Swanage including the connection to National Rail at Wareham and a private tour around the railway workshops at Swanage


Travel From London:

Booking:

To book, please click: Chinnor Booking   to email Malcolm Pym

Or call Malcolm on 07771 830 403

Tickets for the Swanage Railway for those with Rail Staff Travel

If you have protected rail staff travel, you can receive 75% discount on the Swanage Railway return fare.  The normal return fare from Wareham to Swanage on the Swanage Railway is £25.  For those with rail staff travel facilities, book at Wareham.  For those without rail staff travel facilities, either book at Wareham or advance at this link: Swange Railway Tickets

Educational Free Pass

This is an educational visit, so those members with protected (safeguarded) travel facilities can apply for an educational free pass.  Please see: Free Pass for further information.

The free pass ticket should be from your home station to Wareham

Rail Tickets for those without an Educational Free Pass or ‘Priv’ Facilities

An off-peak day return, valid on the above trains is £74.30 or £47.50 with a Railcard (but check specific railcard conditions of use)

However an Advance Single is £31.00 (£20.45 with a railcard) for the outward journey and £13.90 (£9.15 with a railcard) for the return, on the above trains.  Note that advance tickets are only valid on the stated trains and are quota-controlled, so booking as early as possible is strongly recommended.  

Book at SWR or any National Rail website.  


DO NOT use thetrainline or other similar third party sites as you will pay more as these sites charge fees which National Rail Train Operator websites do not charge.  

London Waterloo

dep

08.35 (Plat 12)

1W17

SWR Service to Weymouth

Wareham

arr

10.48 (Plat 2)



Wareham

dep

11.19

2C13

Swanage Railway DMU service

Swanage

arr

12.00a



At Swanage there will be an opportunity for a private tour around the workshop or a visit to the coastal town and lunch.

Return Travel to London

Swanage

dep

13.30+


Swanage Railway, booked steam service

It is also possible to catch the 14.23 DMU

direct to Wareham

Norden

arr

13.52




Norden

dep

14.47

2C22

Swanage Railway DMU service


Wareham

arr

15.09




Wareham

dep

15.28 (Plat 1)

1W24

SWR Service to London Waterloo


London Waterloo

arr

17.51 (Plat 16)