At the end of Day One of the Made in Staffordshire Gala at the Apedale Valley Light Railway, there’s a few aching limbs. Despite a few “challenges” early on in […]
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The day before they came
There’s been a lot of hours out in at Apedale in the last few days, but it’s looking good now for the Made in Staffordshire gala. All the visiting locos […]
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 […]
Happy Birthday
It’s official. The Apedale Valley Light Railway is One today. We had our first day of passenger trains on August 21 last year – although we did sneak in a […]
The Joffre Arrives
The Moseley Railway Trust is delighted to announce the arrival of Kerr Stuart steam locomotive no.3014 of 1916 at the Apedale Valley Light Railway, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. This locomotive is known […]
The Apedale Drought
What an exciting week we have had at Apedale. Our regular Wednesday working party discovered that the water supply was somewhat less than its usual self. This caused some considerable […]
Open Weekend Model Railways
The model railway line-up for the Moseley Railway Trust’s September Open Weekend has been confirmed as listed below. The Open Weekend is on September 10 & 11th, at the Trust’s […]
The Sistene Chapel
Builders are not easy people to deal with. Imagine Pope Julius II’s reaction when he saw Michelangelo’s bill. All the pontiff actually wanted was a nice artex ceiling finish on […]
A Signal Success
The Apedale Valley Light Railway has recently branched out in a new and exciting direction – signalling. Signals on narrow gauge railways are a controversial area – some like them, […]
Industrial Railways
At the Moseley Railway Trust, we are actually quite interested in railways. A well-kept secret I accept, but it cannot be hidden. In particular, we quite like industrial narrow gauge […]
