Top Gun Trains

There are many activities where it’s reassuring to know that there is some form of training regime helping the people do the job better. Obviously, this doesn’t apply to any […]

Tracks to the Trenches 2014

The Moseley Railway Trust will mark the centenary of the start of the First World War with a major event, entitled Tracks to the Trenches – 2014. The event will […]

Museum Progress

There’s been a lot happening on the museum project at Apedale of late. Mostly below ground level. Visitors from last year may recall the steel piles which appeared, resembling an […]

Big Brother, Little Brother

The Moseley Railway Trust has recently taken delivery of a pair of bogies which will form part of the restoration of a “Pershing” wagon. Used extensively by American forces in […]

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 […]

Civil Engineering

With the Gala now behind us, work has now re-started in earnest on the Museum foundations. Contractors have been hard at work digging out trenches around the piles which were […]

What’s New, Pussycat?

Fleet No.56, Hunslet 9082 of 1984 is not a locomotive which has troubled these pages much before. It worked at a Royal Ordnance Factory in Bishopton, Scotland, on the 2’6″ […]

What it’s all about….

What’s it all about? Is it about tamping track in the rain, or trying to assemble bits of engine which really don’t want to be assembled? No. It’s about seeing […]

Gala Day One

It’s been a terrific Day One of the Contractor’s Delight Gala. Glorious weather, lots of trains, lots of visitors. Everyone seemed to enjoy the Field Railway with the Triang No.2 […]