The Moseley Railway Trust is delighted to announce that it has obtained full planning consent for the construction of a museum building on its site at Apedale, Staffordshire.The museum will […]
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What’s the point?
Well actually it’s the large thing loaded onto the wagon seen in this week’s photos. The more observant will have noted that, in last week’s photos, one of the two […]
Apedale Site Update
As late Summer turns to Autumn, the devoted volunteers of the Moseley Railway Trust are making steady progress with completing Phase One of the Apedale Valley Light Railway. You will […]
Hurrah for Hudswell!
One of the more prolific, and long-lasting, of the British private locomotive builders was Hudswell Clarke & Co Ltd. From their Railway Foundry works in Jack Lane, Leeds, they turned […]
Open day Retrospective
Well, that was Open Weekend 2009. The visiting engines have all returned home, the site has returned to its normal self, and the organising team’s blood pressure has dropped from […]
Open Weekend – halfway through
We’ve got halfway through the Open Weekend at Apedale, and thus far it’s going very well. The weather has been very kind to us, and we’ve seen lots of visitors, […]
Open days – Do YOU have this booked?
Just a quick update – The Moseley Railway Trust’s Open Days are getting close. The line up of visiting locos is now confirmed as the Orenstein & Koppel steam loco […]
What do these things have in common?
Probably more than you would expect. For the uninitiated, one is Class 55 “Deltic”, a 100mph diesel electric loco used on BR’s Eastern Region. The other is the Matisa tamping […]
Simply Splendid Simplexes
We’ve been focusing on infrastructure stuff in recent posts, so for a change, this week we will have a look at two locomotive projects which are on-going at the Moseley […]
Bermuda Triangle
It’s been a busy day at Apedale. The task of ballast tamping has (hopefully) been made somewhat easier by the arrival of a Matisa tamper on loan from our friends […]
