North Dorset Railway

[1] The project's present aim is to restore the current leased length of 1,200 feet (370 m) single track mainline, with a passing loop between the platforms.

The south end of the up platform has been rebuilt and the picnic area above landscaped with a colourful garden - an outdoor 'O' scale model railway was built there but was removed in 2019.

This was the first standard gauge loco on the Somerset & Dorset mainline south of the Mendips and north of Blandford, since the demolition train departed in July 1967, exactly 42 years before.

[citation needed] The NDR submitted in December 2020 a planning application for the extension, this was approved in April 2021 with permission to extend the line 400 m north of the station.

In February 2023 a temporary diversion of the permissive path at the North end of the station was created allowing the construction of a pedestrian level crossing.

The permissive path was restored and the last hump of soil obstructing the line of the trackbed for the extension was removed.

Restoration work commenced in 2006, and over the years the main building was repaired, and a replica signal box with a correct Stevens frame [5] and tablet machines was constructed by volunteers.