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    Swanage wins £50k government grant for Wareham service study

    Dec 25, 2020 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    ANDREW P M WRIGHT
    ANDREW P M WRIGHT

    SWANAGE Railway volunteers have won a Government grant of up to £50,000 to pay for an updated feasibility study and business case aimed at reinstating a public service to reconnect the resort with the main line at Wareham.

    South Dorset MP Richard Drax has welcomed the awarding of the grant from the Department for Transport’s national ‘Beeching reversal’ Restoring Your Railway Fund as “an important step to ensure our iconic railway sustains

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