Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum

Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum during construction

The Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum is a museum on the topics of Purbeck Ball Clay , clay -Mining and narrow gauge railways on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset .

description

The operators of the museum have relocated parts of a disused clay mine to the north station and set up a field railway with locomotive sheds and wagon shed in which locomotives and wagons are stored, renovated and exhibited. To lead the railway line over bridge no. 15 over the standard gauge Swanage museum railway to an area that belongs to the museum. The state of construction of the "Skew Bridge" built in 1885, i. H. a bridge running diagonally across the railroad track was examined by a civil engineer in 2010 and found to be good according to its age.

The museum was built by volunteers under the management of the Swanage Railway Trust and inaugurated in 2014. Among other things, it deals with the history of the following narrow-gauge railways:

Narrow gauge diesel locomotives on the Fayles Tramway

Middlebere Tramway , opened in 1806 for a length of 3.4 miles (5.5 km) with a gauge of 3 feet 9 inches (unit) (1,143 mm).
Newton Tramway , opened as a 3-foot (914 mm) horse-drawn tramway in May 1854 and later changed to a 3-foot-9-inch (1,143 mm) steam train.

Fayles Tramway , spanning 5¾ miles (9.25 km) from 1907 with a 3 foot 9 inch (1,143 mm) track.

It also collects exhibits on slate and shale gas , Purbeck limestone, clay, lime and other materials, as well as oil.

Reconstructed tracks parallel to the Swanage Railway

In 2014, the Purbeck and Mineral and Mining Museum, together with its parent Swanage Railway Trust, published the plan to open the museum on as many days as possible and to make areas that were previously inaccessible. As a first step, the exhibition was modernized and in 2015 a cable winch for operation with bulk goods wagons was put back into operation. After that, the bridge is to be restored and a building for Secundus and car No. 28 will be built, which are currently still in storage at Corfe Castle station .

Rail vehicles

Unless otherwise noted, the rail vehicles have a 2-foot (610 mm) track.

Steam locomotives

Number and name	drive	Wheel alignment	class	Remarks
'Secundus'	steam	0-4-0	Bellis & Seekings Ltd 0-4-0	2 feet 8 inches (813 mm) gauge, not operational, currently in the cargo terminal building in Corfe Castle .
'Emmet'	steam	0-4-0		Operational. The first working narrow-gauge steam locomotive in the Purbecks since 1953, since the narrow-gauge railways operated by Pike Brothers Fayle & Company had run to the clay pits of Furzebrook. 'Emmet' was built in 2003 for use on the Moors Valley Railway at Ashley Heath in Dorset . It is named after a cat that lived on the Moors Valley Railway. 'Emmet' was built on the chassis of a German diesel locomotive from the 1930s, which from 1940 to 1970 hauled trains in a clay mine in the north, near Corfe Castle .
542 'Cloister'	steam	0-4-0	Hunslet	Exhibited in the Purbeck Mining Museum, but not in use. 'Cloister' was built in 1891 by Hunslet in Leeds as No. 542 for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry . It was named the locomotive 0-4-0 after the Grand National winner of 1893, as the quarry owner was an avid horse racer. The locomotive "retired" in 1962 is owned by the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust.
283871 'Snapper'	diesel	0-4-0	48DL Ruston & Hornsby Diesel	Ready for operation, but with a body in need of renovation.
392117	diesel	0-4-0	48DL Ruston & Hornby Diesel	Operational, loaned to the museum.

dare

number	Type	Remarks	photo
-	Underground trolleys 1 ft 10 in. (559 mm)	12 pieces will be restored	Photo 39
28	2 ft 8 in (813 mm), two-axle cart	Built for the Furzebrook Railway , in need of renovation
-	Goathorn flat car	Operational	Photo 43
-	Cement mixer lorry	In need of renovation	Photo 44
140	Hudson dump truck	Will be scrapped
16	Hudson dump truck	In need of renovation
41	Allen's dump truck	In need of renovation	Photo 46
-	Allen's dump truck	Is being renovated	Photo 47
31	Flat car	In need of renovation	Photo 48
38	Flat car	Renovated	Photo 49
-	Hudson tipper chassis	In need of renovation	Photo 50
-	Hudson tipper chassis	Renovated	Photo 51
-	Small dump body	In need of renovation	Photo 52
-	Ballast tipper with a transverse tipping axle	In need of renovation	Photo 54
-	Trolley with folding bars	Renovated	Photo 55
-	Hudson dump truck	Is being renovated	Photo 56
-	Small dump truck	In need of renovation	Photo 58
-	Wide chassis	In need of renovation	Photo 59
-	Wide chassis	In need of renovation	Photo 60
-	Wide chassis	In need of renovation	Photo 61
-	Former RN Trecwn Explosive Car (converted as a PW Van)	Renovated	Photo 153
-	Hudson dump truck	In need of renovation	Photo 110
-	Lister bogie flat car	In need of renovation	Photo 194
-	Passenger car with 8 seats	Renovated	Photo 152
-	Passenger car with 12 seats	Renovated	Photo 63

literature

Chris Legg: Fayle's Tramways: Clay Mining in Purbeck. 2014, ISBN 978-0-906294-79-6
JHLucking: Railways of Dorset. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society , 1968, no ISBN
RW Kidner: The Railways of Purbeck. The Oakwood Press 1973 (reprint 1979, expanded reprint 1988) ISBN 0-85361-372-9
Andrew PM Wright and Ian Allan: The Swanage Branch Then and Now. 1992, ISBN 0-7110-2046-9
Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith: Branch Line to Swanage revised edition to 1992. Middleton Press, 1992, ISBN 0-906520-33-9