Author Archives: Simon Lomax

Developments for Motor Rail Mania – June 27 and 28. Two of the visitors have arrived – these are the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust locos nos. 4724 and 5226. […]

We are pleased to announce that the Moseley Railway Trust has published a major new book. This substantial work, several years in the making, tells the story of the Kerr, […]

Just a reminder that this coming weekend see our new family-focussed event “Park Animals”. Children will be able to take part in a simple quiz along the journey, looking out […]

We are pleased to announce yet another visiting loco for the Motor Rail Mania event on June 27 & 28. This extra visitor is loco 40S383, displayed in public for […]

The planned locos for June are as follows: 6 June – “Stanhope”, 7 June – diesel. 13 & 14 June – Hunslet 1215. This will be the last chance to […]

It’s Volunteers Week – see here, so we thought we’d show you a typical job undertaken by our wonderful team. The objective was to set concrete to create the footings […]

For those interested in all things Motorail Simplex, we have now completed the loco roster for our Motorail Mania event taking place on the 27th and 28th of June, and […]

Just a quick reminder of this coming bank holiday. We will, of course, also be selling standard tickets valid only at Apedale.

Motor Rail 7522 of 1948 is one of the manufacturer’s 8/12HP class. Only a handful were built, and only two survive (as far as we know). They were an unconventional […]

We have two exciting pieces of news to update on the Motor Rail Mania event on June 27 & 28.Firstly, we can confirm a further visiting locomotive. Motor Rail 8540 […]