This summer, between 5 and 28 August inclusive, fewer South West Trains services will run while work starts to extend platforms at London Waterloo. This will allow longer trains with more seats and more space for passengers. Click the link below to download the temporary timetable for the Waterloo to Exeter line for August during […]
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The station Volunteers at Crewkerne found that the wooden tubs used as planters on the unused down platform were ‘losing their bottoms’ and that the time had come for replacements. After an investigation, the Friends of Crewkerne Station decided that drinking troughs for cattle answered the requirements and obtained them at a discount from Countrywide […]
The website has now been updated with its own calendar for future events. Clicking “Upcoming Events” in the “News and Events” Menu will show a short list of the upcoming events. Clicking “Events Calendar” will bring up all the current events as a monthly calendar. This should hopefully provide a much better and convenient method […]
Last Tuesday was the first day of the re-instated through service from Swanage to Wareham, the culmination of 45-year old ambition of those involved with the Swanage Railway, local councils etc since B.R. closed the branch in January 1972. The trains will run initially for a 2-year experimental period. Being such a historically significant event […]
Friends of Crewkerne Station were delighted to acquire recently one of the two original BR Southern Region Green enamel Running In Boards which were removed from the station in 1978. The Running in Board is 10 feet long and 2 feet high and was one of two which were originally situated at each end of […]
If you have ever waited in the cold and wind for a taxi or a lift at the station you will know how unpleasant it can be. Now thanks to hard work from the Friends of Crewkerne Station, their liaison with Richard Kempton of South West Trains and the generosity of Waitrose customers there is […]
FOGS volunteers have recently installed four window boxes to the front of Gillingham Station, which have been planted with pansies and grasses to brighten up the approach to the station. Money for these came from a very generous donation from David and Tony, Station Staff, who donated £200 in National Garden Vouchers to FOGS from […]
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