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One could be forgiven for thinking that all recent activity at Apedale has been on a certain cartoon-dog named Ruston. This is far from the truth. Today, a fairly large […]

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 […]

On July 7th, the Apedale Valley Light Railway will host a fundraising day for the Douglas Macmillan Hospice (DMH). The railway, operated by the Moseley Railway Trust (MRT), will operate […]

…because Pluto lives! After some considerable trials and tribulations, Ruston No.31 – known as 189972 of 1931 to its builders, and Pluto to the team rebuilding it – has finally […]

The Empire Loyalists amongst the membership of the Moseley Railway Trust have been busy, and as you can see in the photo, the passenger train looks rather splendid. Sadly, this […]

Just a quick reminder – we still have availability for the Father’s Day Treat on the Apedale Valley Light Railway. It’s the first time we’ve run this event, and it […]

The Moseley Railway Trust, operators of the Apedale Valley Light Railway, has received a grant towards security gates for its site at Apedale, Chesterton, Newcastle-Under-Lyme. The Apedale Valley Light Railway […]

Last week we looked at a Hudswell Clarke steam loco suffering an aquatic embarrassment. This time we’ll look at another Hudswell product – built only 13 years later, in 1930. […]

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 […]

Piles can be nasty things, and at Apedale the piles for the museum foundations were seriously impeding access to the area for the machines needed to continue constructing the foundations. […]