April 2025

South Western Railway invited a number of local VIPs as it unveiled a number of improvements which it said would ‘enhance the gateway to Dorset’s county town and the wider Jurassic Coast region’.

A number of improvements have been delivered as part of the Access for All Mid-Tier programme which includes an enlarged booking hall with improved waiting area, more seating and quieter flooring, new automatic doors to and from the booking hall, two new waiting shelters on Platforms 1 and 2, an improved existing waiting shelter on platform 2, a new interactive information ‘totem’.

Additionally, new murals of Dorchester have been unveiled on the station frontage and a Beryl e-bike bay has been installed in front of the station. These improvements build on previous changes such as the station repaint, toilet refurbishment, and new customer information screens.

The Purbeck Community Rail Partnership have played a key role in funding some of these improvements with many more to come.  Now the station needs more volunteers to join the existing Friends of Dorchester South to maintain and look after newly installed planting and landscaping.

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