One of the Kerr Stuarts in service during the conflict On the centenary of the outbreak of the war to end all wars, we take a look at one veteran […]
Author Archives: Simon Lomax
Nearly Time
The team at Apedale have spent the weekend preparing for the annual Big Weekend at he Apedale Valley Light Railway – this year christened the Stoke Steam Special. If can […]
The team at Apedale have spent the weekend preparing for the annual Big Weekend at he Apedale Valley Light Railway – this year christened the Stoke Steam Special. If can be be tidied, it’s been tidied, if it can be cleaned it’s been cleaned. One of our volunteers sat still for too long and ended up in a bin bag. These weekends have always been memorable, and we are sure next weekend will not disappoint. We have, for example, a record breaking collection of model railways, and for the hardened enthusiast, the last remaining parts of the rare Rhiwbach loco have been re-assembled (but don’t get too excited!). The photos are reminders of previous years – hopefully next weekend will also produce a set of nice pictures. As ever, get in touch here. -->The Mighty Whites
We’ve been painting a lot of stuff white recently. Firstly there was an ex-McAlpines U skip we painted up for the Gala. More recently, we’ve had a go at the […]
Cats and Dogs…
With work proceeding on the Museum foundations, thoughts turned to the exhibits to put in it. Whilst our curator has been busy trying to properly catalogue our vast collection of […]
A Sneaky Peek
As you know, at the start of the year the Apedale Apprentices set themselves the challenge of rebuilding a little 10/13 Ruston locomotive within 50 weeks, which was the birth […]
Oops!
Today’s photo shows a forlorn looking locomotive lying upside down in a swamp in 1996. The photograph was taken by Colin Laidler, who was instrumental in recovering the loco, a painstaking […]
Remembering
This weekend our thoughts turn to remembrance of the sacrifices made by those who fought so bravely to defend our way of life. Sadly, all those who served in The […]
The Circle of Life
Whilst the next major stage of the Apedale development plan is due to start very shortly, there are a couple of projects that have recently completed. Last weekend provided an […]
A New Industrial Railway?
One of our members recently took the attached photograph, showing several wagons on typical roughly-laid peat works track. These types of temporary railways were once widespread in the UK, the […]
The Hole Story
We seem to have been developing holes in things this week. First we had to investigate the radiator on one of our Ruston diesels. No 37 came from ICI at […]
