Tampermatic
A wet and wild day down the Apedale Valley has seen a stoic team of Trust members attending to the last job on the P-Way Winter Maintenance Programme. This was […]
Early Christmas Present
Exactly one month early, Santa has been to the Apedale Valley Light Railway and delivered us a large new toy. To be honest, we were rather disappointed that it wasn’t […]
Filming and Freezing
The weekend has seen some unusual goings-on for this time of year. The replica WW1 trench has hosted a film crew from the University for the Creative Arts. Some of […]
Impermanent Way
With the running season behind us, attention has switched to the winter maintenance programme. An intensive burst of activity took place today. It’s a good job it was active, otherwise […]
Military Memories
After the general insanity which is the Halloween weekend, we all put our sensible heads back on for the end-of-season Military Memories weekend. Open from 1130-1600 on Saturday and Sunday, […]
Progress on many fronts
It’s been a weekend of distinctly mixed weather down at Apedale. Saturday was extremely wet, with visitor numbers to match. Sunday was much better, albeit cold. However, the antidote to […]
Driver Experience
Last Friday saw us entertain our first paying guest for the Tracks to the Trenches driver experience. The customer, who is apparently undertaking scholarly research into the use of light […]
By Van to Apedale Road
The FR van has made a Giant Leap Forward by being re-united with its bogies this weekend. The bogies were dismantled for overhaul and to have the wheelsets machined, since […]
Bye, Bye Justine
This Saturday has seen us bid a fond farewell to the Jung steam loco Justine after an extra day wiorking the passenger train at Apedale. Justine is a cracking little […]
An old warrier
We still have two more events in the main season at Apedale – Halloween on October 31st/November 1st and the Military Memories weekend on November 7th & 8th. For the […]
