Author Archives: Simon Lomax

We have hosted a team from Atkins today. The team was made of of permanent way and overhead electrification engineers, and they put their collective knowledge to good work by […]

Day Two of Military Trains experienced even more spectacular weather than Day One – bursts of sunshine interspersed with torrential downpours. Big thanks to those who braved the weather and […]

Day One of the Military Trains weekend. The mainline was occupied by the First World War, the Field Railway had wound the clock forward to the Second World War and […]

Just a very quick reminder that this coming weekend is our Military Trains event. Performing on the main line will be Hunslet 1215 and Hudswell 1238, which will haul passenger […]

A few photos of current projects. The stripdown continues on the Avonside steam loco. Some components are proving to be distinctly reluctant to be stripped down, and in some cases […]

Just a very short post showing a key milestone reached with the Avonside – parting the boiler from the frames. The wheels are in amazingly good order – looks like […]

Looking forward to next weekend – July 10 & 11 – and the Classic Diesel and Steam weekend. It’s like a Diesel Gala, only with added steam locos. The format […]

Just a quick reminder that this Saturday we are hosting a visit from the IFA Club. As every schoolboy knows, IFA stands for Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau, which was the industrial conglomerate […]

Unusually, we head away from Apedale for (some) of this post. The Chemical and Insulating Company was loacted in the Faverdale area of Darlington. It was operational between 1928 and […]

This weekend has seen more work to recover the fittings from the Avonside steam loco’s boiler. A process not notable for its subtlety, but necessary; the fittings are valuable, expensive […]