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

Purbeck Mining Museum welcomed our 1000th visitor of the year, all the way from Eastbourne!

Great day for the narrow gauge railway, running alongside the Swanage Railway Diesel Gala.

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.

Our final preparation day, getting ready for the 2023 season starting Easter weekend.

It was wonderful to see so many visitors at our first open day of 2023.

The Purbeck Mining Museum volunteers have been putting the finishing touches to the displays and getting the narrow gauge railway ready. We're looking forward to seeing you soon!

We're now only two weeks away from opening! This week we're reinstalling the transhipment shed artefacts and displays.

A few DIY experts in our volunteer team have been working out how to repair and make new shutters for our Foreman's Office.

The team were busy clearing the Mining Museum area and making our access paths trip-free.

As part of Swanage Railway Community Open weekend, we had on display our Ruston engines, one of which was in use helping our woodland management team. We met with many narrow gauge railway enthusiasts, some of whom had travelled from a long distance to visit.

Greasing the points on our narrow gauge railway. This is essential maintenance to allow the engines to run when we reopen later in the year.

Great work from the team today in clearing the excess vegetation and making the track visible again.