The nearby 7¼" gauge Moors Valley Railway provides a locomotive for their static publicity display at every Wimborne MRX. This year's visiting loco was "improved Tinkerbell" style loco "Perseus"

I was pleased to meet up with Roy Wood's award winning 0-16.5 layout "Crichel" as previous attempts by myself to obtain reasonable photos of this layout since I first met it at Chilterns NG in 2003, have been unsuccessful

The Witchampton terminus, which is one leg of an inside "U" layout design. With the layout being at shoulder-level and the modules being "open boxes", viewing angles were defined, but only some 4 or 5 people were able to enter the "U" to view the layout at any one time.

The daily goods train prepares to depart from Witchampton bound for Long Crichel

A charming little Lister, built from a Roy Link kit, with a loaded watercress train

The Lister runs around the watercress wagons

An innovative brake van - look closely and you can see the Peco Lynton & Barntaple 4 ton open wagon origins

The little Lister again, with a train of empty flats

A Bagnall loco with a livestock wagon. Livestock on this line means pigs - headed for the sausage factory

Another little loco - this time it is a Hunslet

A view from the buffer stops at Long Crichel - the other end of the "U" shaped layout

The goods train we previously saw departing from Witchampton, arrives at Long Crichel

The familiar and impressive frontage of just half of the Tarrant Valley 009 layout

The Tarrant Valley was set up as an "inside L" for this show, here is the other leg of the "L" from the previous photo

2 of the Tarrant Valley's unique class of Hunslet 0-6-0T locos at Tarrant Gunville station. The railway has about 10 of these locos in the roster - all whitemetal kits, from a master made by a Wimborne RS member - they are not available commercially

A new item of motive power on the Tarrant Valley in the form of a Hunslet 2-6-2T

Tarrant Gunville terminus at rush hour!

Another new loco, this time an 0-6-0T running on a Roco chassis

A pretty impressive "dead loco" siding - Bernie Luthor's green NG-G16 garratt, parked up with Stu Webb's black one

The chalk quarry - you can tell it is Sunday by the lack of activity!

A comedian has been tampering with the sign on the end of the True Lover's Knot Inn. Dorset viewers will no doubt be familiar with the real Inn of this name sited, coincidentally, in the real Tarrant Valley!

His lordship (has he got a title and name?) has his own ornate loco shed in his private siding with a railcar awaiting his pleasure

His Lordship's residence

In this part of the world, the phrase "where there's muck there's money" is related to pig farming, rather than the heavy industry the phrase is normally associated with

More lineside industry in the Tarrant Valley

The pleasure boat jetty on the banks of the River Stour, just below Stonemere

A rather impressive and original double fairlie, cobbled together in the Tarrant Valley workshops from two of the line's standard Hunslet 0-6-0T locos

Helicopter view of activity just outside Rawston & Rushton

Another of the Tarrant Valley's Hunslet locos on a goods service pauses at Stonemere, the principal passing station on the line

The bridge over the River Stour. Superb scenic work

Peter Hollins' 0-14 Norden Mine - a tribute to the Purbeck ball clay mining industry set around 1969

Norden Mine normally resides in the Purbeck museum, where it acts as an animated diorama to depict the ball clay mining industry

Norden Mine

A diesel loco hauls a loaded skip up to the main road crossing

Norden Mine, in the shadow of Corfe Castle

A view of the whole of Norden Mine, a very attractively presented animated display showing the Purbeck clay mining industry in the 1960's

1960's traffic jam - cars en-route to Swanage are held up at the level crossing whilst a train of clay skips comes up from the mine

John Thorne with Purbeck - an 009 tribute to the Dorset clay mining industry. Whilst there is already a collection in this gallery devoted exclusively to this attractive layout, I took the opportunity to have some new items of stock posed for photos - read on!

This very purposeful looking 0-6-0T has a rare German Merker & Fischer body mounted on the Arnold chassis

An exquisite Tortillard kitbuilt model of a French 4-6-0T design, another superb 009 model

This loco was in the earlier photo collection, but this is a better photo! A Belgian Meuse 2-6-0T, which makes an interesting comparison with the French 4-6-0T in the previous photo

Another new loco at Purbeck. This freelance 0-6-0T runs on a very highly detailed Fleischman chassis and has a scratchbuilt boiler with British fittings, plus the cab and tanks from the well known Liliput HOe "GH Thommen" 0-6-0T loco

John's French Crochat railcar has been joined by an authentic 2-wheel trailer. I'm getting a bit worried about John's developing tendency towards French models!

A familiar view across the works at Purbeck, with a Meridian models ex-WDLR Baldwin petrol mechanical loco and Hunslet 2-6-2T Russell (Chivers kit) in view

A Simplex at the station end of the layout

The Baldwin loco poses for a photo with the mechanical shovel

Two types of modern image transport at Purbeck! French Crochat railcar on the right passes a Wickham trolley

Russell brings a loaded train down the valley

This foreman's shed is a model of the actual building that is displayed at the Purbeck clay mine museum

A final overall view up the valley. We will certainly be visiting Purbeck again sometime in the future!