Steam News
AN APPEAL has been launched by Swanage Railway volunteers to raise £65,000 so that work can resume on building a muchneeded £240,000 carriage storage shed. It is hoped they will have the £65,000 raised by the end of June so that the steel structure of the building can be ordered before being delivered to the site and constructed in November 2021. Work on the new building – east of Herston Halt on the outskirts of Swanage – began in January 2020 but had to stop in March 2020 due to lockdown. By then contractors had completed the foundations for the steel structure that will span two tracks and store ten carriages. The railway currently has no undercover carriage storage.
Fund-raising chairman Randy Coldham said: “We are hopeful that people will help us to close the funding gap and allow the shed to be completed by the start of 2022 so it can protect our historic carriages from the ravages of winter weather.”