Norden Station was opened in 1995, as part of a Park and Ride scheme enabling visitors to travel by train to Corfe castle or Swanage. 

Before then the station did not exist, the track at that point just running through a narrow cutting below the narrow gauge line  taking clay from the the local clay mines to the transhipment facility at Eldons Sidings, half a mile along the track towards Wareham. ( See picture on front page)

Between the car park and the station is the Purbeck Mineral Mining Museum and narrow gauge railway, which is currently under construction. The  aim of the museum is to create a Ball Clay Museum, showing how the ball clay was mined in the Purbecks with some of the equipment used in this process, including a working narrow gauge mining railway. 

The picture on the front of PMMM website shows exactly what the station site looked like in the 1960's, with Skew Arch bridge in the background and clay mining buildings, long demolished, on the bank behind where the station is now

The station covers quite a large site with  various wooden station buildings and surrounding banks, fences etc. that require regular maintainance and we are always looking for volunteers to help.

If you are interested, please contact the Norden Station Manager,  Ian Diffey

Telephone: 01392 256315 or Email: ian@positivethoughts.co.uk