Getting ready – and a new arrival

Work is full swing on preparing the site for next weekend and the Tracks to the Trenches 2016 megabash. In addition to the various vehicle projects which were reviewed last […]

Whenever we have an event….

……we always seem to restore more wagons! This year is no exception. The first photo shows the progress with the Class A wagon. The Class A, B and C wagons […]

The Big Push

With only three weeks to go before Tracks to the Trenches 2016, activity at Apedale has taken on a frenzied pace. The usual mega-shunts have begun to try to clear […]

Friends Reunited

One of the advantages of our rather large locomotive collection at Apedale is that we can show and contrast how locos were used, modified and abused in industry. One such […]

All around the UK

Another busy weekend for the Moseley Railway Trust has seen us operating railways over quite a significant geographical spread. At home at Apedale, it was a normal timetabled steam service. […]

Heavy Metal

It’s been a weekend of heavy lifting and heavy metalwork down at the Apedale Valley Light Railway. We are hoping to extend the current demonstration field railway in time for […]

New Coach

The volunteer team at the Apedale Valley Light Railway have been very impressed by the ex-Ffestiniog coach no.117; we now recognise that large, high-capacity coaches are they way of the […]

AGM Day – and Thank you Mel

It’s been AGM weekend at Apedale, where – once again – the Trustees subject themselves to close scrutiny from the membership. Fortunately, this year at least, no rubber gloves were […]