Welcome to “Jennie”

We are delighted to announce a new steam arrival at the Apedale Valley Light Railway. “Jennie” was built in 2008 by the Hunslet Engine Company. The loco is a modern […]

August Steam Loco plan

The planned roster for August will be as follows:- August 1st – Stanhope, 2nd – Diesel August 8th & 9th – Ogwen (as Ogwen the Welsh engine) and OK5662 (as […]

Loco Roster – July

After the Simplex take-over last weekend, we’re back! The July plan is as follows:- July 4 – Ogwen – this loco has a minor issue at the time of writing. […]

The 8/12 lives!

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. […]

Park Animals

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 […]

Motor Rail Mania – an update

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 […]

Loco roster – June

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 […]

Volunteers Week

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 […]