Author Archives: Simon Lomax

The workshop team have been busy over the Xmas period, and the key achievement has been reaching the “first movement” stage with Motor Rail 21520. This loco came to us […]

Just a very quick post to thank all our members, friends, visitors and supporters for 2019. The Santa Season is now complete, ad we have but one further operating day […]

Santa bookings update – The remaining seats for 21/22 December will be released on Saturday 21st December at 9am. Bookings can be made either in person at the station or […]

We’ve had a few enquiries about how to book the remaining seats for the Santa Trains. You can see which trains have availability at https://santa.avlr.org.uk/santastep1.phpBookings for this Saturday and Sunday […]

It’s the last weekend before the onslaught of the Santa Season, so plenty was happening at Apedale this weekend. After all the track works, checks were made with the Yellow […]

Another busy (and cold) weekend at Apedale. The annual servicing of the coaching stock was finally finished, and the train assembled ready for the Santas. Down the line, the last […]

The Winter Maintenance Programme is in full swing at the moment. Main PW task so far has been checking and greasing fishplates on the main running line – a dirty […]

Member’s Day at Apedale, which is a chance to reflect and discuss on the season just gone – many things went well, but there are always things to be learnt. […]

A major hurdle was overcome in the restoration of Motor Rail 21520. You may (or may not) recall that arguably the biggest issue with this loco when it arrived at […]

Many thanks to everyone who came to celebrate our 50th birthday this weekend. It was particularly gratifying to see the various alumni from the School Railway Society. Everyone seemed to […]