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Purbeck Mining Museum's Narrow Gauge Railway demonstrations proved very popular alongside Swanage Railway's Steam Gala weekend.

Narrow Gauge Railway running at the Swanage Railway Community Weekend

Thanks very much to the Swanage Railway Sygnets for helping Purbeck Mining Museum with winter maintenance!

The Purbeck Mining Museum team of volunteers celebrated our Arts Council England Accreditation which was awarded in July 2024. (Photo Andrew P M Wright)

Thanks very much to the team from Allianz, especially Aaron and Dave, for their help in site maintenance.

The new Bachmann T3 made a fleeting visit to the model of Furzebrook ball clay works at the Purbeck Mining Museum. Then PMM hosted 150 visitors to the museum as part of the Bachmann launch event of their new model on the Swanage Railway today. (Photo P Sills)

Chat with former miner Brian every Wednesday in August and September at Purbeck Mining Museum

PMM Chairman Peter Sills welcoming a group of Swanage Railway stakeholders to a guided tour (photo: Andrew P M Wright)

Guided tour for the Purbeck Society.

Thank you very much to Swanage Probus Club for inviting Purbeck Mining Museum to give a talk about the history of clay mining in Purbeck.

Thanks very much to the 226 visitors from Bournemouth District Scouts. We had a busy day!

Purbeck Mining Museum's welfare cabin for volunteers moving into place. Great work from our team of dedicated volunteers.

Another happy group of visitors having a guided tour of Purbeck Mining Museum.

Narrow Gauge Railway at Swanage Railway Victorian Weekend. Photo: Andrew P M Wright

Purbeck Mining Museum is ready for our Victorian weekend down at the clay mine; just looking for some new recruits....

Thanks very much to the Swanage Railway Sygnets for a great day's work at Purbeck Mining Museum helping us get the site ready for the 2024 season.

Some of our 200 visitors to the first day of Purbeck Mining Museum's 2024 season.

Narrow Gauge Railway demonstrations at the Swanage Railway Community Weekend. It was great to see so many visitors.

Ruston in action - preparing the narrow gauge railway for our 17/18 Feb demonstrations

A beautiful day for our volunteers to have a sneak preview of the woodland trails in development. We plan to open the trails to the public during the 2024 season.

Interesting day welcoming visitors to Purbeck Mining Museum's pop-up display at the Corfe Castle Festival of Cultural Heritage.

A special visitor today - Carole Brown has agreed to make a loan to Purbeck Mining Museum of some of her late father's pottery. We'll be putting together a display in 2024.

Great day for our Narrow Gauge Railway and lots of interested visitors.

Thanks very much to the Owen family from Stoke on Trent for their visit. One of them was our 4,000th visitor this year!

PMM were part of Channel 5's Dorset Countryside & Coast series. If you missed it, you can see it on-demand on MyFive. Thanks to everyone who helped out on the day and made it happen.

Thanks to all our visitors to the Narrow Gauge Railway today. We hope to see you all again soon!

Great visit from a TV production company at Purbeck Mining Museum last week. They are making a short promotional video for the ‘Purbeck Community Rail Partnership’ and it features various things to do on a day out to Purbeck traveling by SWR from London, and then using the Swanage Railway link from Wareham to Corfe Castle and Swanage.

Thanks to the lovely group from Jollydays Holidays for their visit today.

Thanks very much to Stacey and George from Imerys Furzebrook office for their visit. We're looking forward to more discussions with Imerys over the next few months.

Thanks to the lovely members of the 2CV appreciation society who came for a private tour today.

Lovely weather to be running Purbeck Mining Museum's narrow gauge railway. Lots of visitors to the museum also.