The railway is part of the otherwise dismantled LMS branch line from Mangotsfield to Green Park station, Bath, which was closed during the Beeching Axe of the 1960s as the Great Western Railway a few miles to the south also connected Bristol to Bath.
The railway is run by a local group, the Bitton Railway co., based in Bitton station, which they acquired in 1972.
The railway shares its route with the Sustrans cycleway and footpath, the Bristol and Bath railway path (part of NCR 4).
The Swanage Railway is a six mile-long heritage railway in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England.
The railway follows the route of the Purbeck branch line (Norden Park and Ride - Corfe Castle - Harmans Cross - Herston - Swanage), and is now connected to the mainline at Wareham along a stretch of the branch line that remained open to freight.
In 1995 the railway reopened from Swanage to Corfe Castle, and on January 3 2002 the track was joined with the Furzebrook freight line and the Purbeck branch line was once again complete, thirty years to the day after it was closed.
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