Good progress is being made with a ramp to the Dorchester West rail station.

It will mean disabled users no longer having to travel to Weymouth and then back again to head north of the GWR line.

A new no-step access ramp is being created to take passengers to the northbound platform from a specially built layby in Williams Avenue, close to Dorset County Hospital.

Local councils and Network Rail have paid into a fund of almost £300,000 to pay for the work – although it has been more than a decade since the idea was first suggested.

West Dorset MP Chris Loder, who has been lobbying for the work to start in recent years, said: "Finally seeing this work beginning is a huge relief. Disabled access to the northbound platform has been an issue for many years now. It's disgraceful that disabled passengers are currently unable to access the platform ."

A Network Rail spokesman said they expected work on the ramp to be completed in July.