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Due to restricted Car Parking in the Swanage area, visitors should use our northern terminus at Norden and Park & Ride where there are a purpose-built disabled toilets and baby-changing facilities, and level footpaths to the Norden station platform.
For reference, the SatNav location info for GPS is as follows:
Norden Park & Ride BH20 5DW
Corfe Castle Station BH20 5EJ
Harman's Cross Station BH19 3EB
Swanage Station BH19 1HB
Swanage is situated on the Dorset coast between Poole Harbour and Weymouth. It is reached via the A351 from Wareham, or via the Sandbanks/Shell Bay Ferry operated by the Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Company saving over 25 miles on a return journey from Poole to Swanage.
Swanage station is situated in the centre of the town, just a few minutes walk from the beach. Norden Park and Ride station is situated off the A351 on the approach to Corfe Castle from Wareham.
The nearest National Rail station is Wareham, served by a twice hourly service from London, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth. See below for details of bus services to connect from Wareham National Rail station to the Swanage Railway.
Wilts and Dorset buses provide the best link between the main
National Rail network and the Swanage Railway. In Swanage all Wilts & Dorset buses run to and
from the bus station which is in the railway station
forecourt with direct access to the steam
trains.
There are full timetables for the area on the Wilts and Dorset website
by clicking on this link
http://www.wdbus.co.uk/
Bus Service 40 runs from Poole to Swanage via Wareham
and Corfe Castle, approximately every hour on Mondays to
Saturdays and every two hours on Sundays and Public Holidays but
every hour during the
Summer Season.
Bus Service 50 runs from Bournemouth to Swanage via the
Sandbanks Ferry every hour Monday to Saturday and also on
Sundays and Public Holidays during the summer period, but runs
less frequently on Sundays and Public holidays during the winter.
During the summer OPEN TOP double deck buses are used on the
50 route which crosses the mouth of Poole Harbour on the chain
ferry and then climbs through the magnificent Purbeck Hills to
Swanage. The 50 bus now terminates at Bournemouth Interchange (ie
Bournemouth Rail Station).
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