Norden railway station (England)

Norden
Station on heritage railway
The station platform looking towards Wareham. The Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum is in the trees to the right.
General information
Location	Corfe Castle, Purbeck England
Coordinates	50°38′41″N 2°03′45″W / 50.6447°N 2.0624°W / 50.6447; -2.0624
Grid reference	SY956828
Managed by	Swanage Railway
Platforms	1
Key dates
1995	Opened

Norden railway station is a railway station located one mile to the north of the village of Corfe Castle, on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It is situated on the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway that operates over the former London and South Western Railway line from Wareham to Swanage. Norden is the northern terminus of the railway's steam service from Swanage.

The site is the home of the Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum, a museum about the history of ball clay mining in the Isle of Purbeck. The museum includes the relocated header building of one of the areas last underground mines, together with a reconstruction of an underground gallery. There is also a section of the narrow gauge railway that served the clay industry, and a collection of narrow gauge rolling stock.

A large car park, provided by Purbeck District Council, allows the station to function as a park & ride facility for the tourist centres of Corfe Castle and Swanage.^[1]