Welcome to the 2025 season
Well, hasn’t that come round quickly? Our 2025 season will start on April 12. We’ll then be running trains every weekend and bank holiday Monday until the end of October. […]
Three small railways are better together!
The Apedale Valley Light Railway, the West Lancashire Light Railway and Amerton Railway are 2’0” gauge railways with a lot in common. All are entirely volunteer managed and operated, all […]
AGM & APB
AGM weekend at Apedale, when the membership hold the Trustees to account and a general review of the “State of the Nation”. All passed off with no major issues, and […]
Draining away
Through 2024, we have suffered increasing problems with water ingress at Apedale Road; the water is coming from the adjacent Country Park. Local changes in the drainage pattern meant that […]
Water Cranes and Steam Boilers
A very busy and productive day at Apedale saw two major projects make significant strides towards the completion. The long-running Water Tower/Water Crane project finally saw the water crane erected […]
Winter maintenance
Winter maintenance work continues apace down at the AVLR. This weekend has seen lots of very varied activities taking place. Two of the steam locos have received boiler washouts in […]
Santa wrapped
Well, folks, that’s Santa 2024 wrapped up. With a nice bow on top. We have seen lots of children, and the ratio of nice to naughty has been exceptionally good. […]
Santa update
An update on Santa Special availability…..with the train and the Grotto nearing completion, there are only a very few seats left on the Santa Specials. The second weekend – 21 […]
Remembering Fauld
80 years ago, on November 27 1944, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions on human history occurred at RAF Fauld, Staffordshire. 70 people lost their lives in a blinding cataclysm […]
Apedale Explorer IV
A pleasure to the host the Branch Line Society’s “Apedale Explorer IV” charter trains today. The morning run was enlived by a downpour, but the afternoon was better. As is […]
