The Dorset Coast Express

We are offering a number of attractive summer day trips from London to Weymouth. These trains provide plenty of opportunity to visit the beautiful Dorset coast and relive the ‘golden age’ of steam. Passengers have the option of spending time at the celebrated seaside resorts of either Bournemouth or Weymouth, where both have fine sandy beaches. This trip will be hauled by a diesel locomotive.

Our train leaves London Victoria station diesel hauled by a heritage Class 47 locomotive and travels westwards, crossing the river Thames at Barnes Bridge, through Kew and Feltham. We stop at Staines, Woking and Basingstoke to pick up further passengers.

From Basingstoke we continue through Andover, bypassing Salisbury and on through Romsey to Southampton. We reverse direction of travel at Southampton and continue towards Weymouth.

We stop at Bournemouth to set down those passengers wishing to visit this coastal resort, a spa town famous for its parks and pine trees. After leaving Bournemouth, there are spectacular views of Poole Harbour. We continue to Wareham and Dorchester travelling through classic Dorset countryside and delightful scenery. We arrive at Weymouth and have around three hours there to discover much of what this seaside town has to offer. The railway station is close to the beach and shops. 

We leave Weymouth retracing our route through Winchester to Basingstoke. We then continue to Woking and Weybridge, from where Staines passengers will return by service train and on to our final destination at London Waterloo.

*By service train from Weybridge.

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