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In celebration of the visit of the Tour de France to Yorkshire, the members of the Moseley Railway Trust have spent the day dressed from head to toe in Lycra. […]

Last time,  you will recall that Motor Rail 1111 was receiving repairs to its engine in an attempt to create oil pressure. This succeeded, and the engine ran just fine. […]

This recently discovered photograph shows two 20HP Simplex petrol tractors undergoing maintenance at what seems to be an improvised workshop, believed to be somewhere in France during 1917. It shows […]

The Moseley Railway Trust is delighted to announce a preservation first at the Tracks to the Trenches Gala. For the first time, a re-union of each of the four different […]

This weekend is the Apedale Heritage Centre’s Mining Gala – a celebration of all things underground and coal related. Although not underground, “Stanhope” is certainly coal related. As we explained […]

The operation of the passenger train on the Apedale Valley Light Railway can seem deceptively simple, especially on a diesel day. After all, one turns up, turns the key and […]

It’s been Classic Cars day down at Apedale. Despite the rather changeable weather (as in changing from heavy rain to drizzle and back again), we have seen a really good […]

Parp!! Parp!! It’s Classic Cars Day at Apedale this Sunday – with apparently a record entry which is making the event organiser look a bit frazzled. It seems classic car […]

Cast your minds back, dear reader, to the heady days of March 2004. At this time, the vast majority of the Moseley Railway Trust’s rolling stock fleet was in store […]

The current locomotive engineering policy at Apedale is that only locos whose builder’s name begins with the letter H will be restored. So, having finished the Hudswell Clarke, attention has […]