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Half-Term Opening
This half term we are going to open the museum every day! Unfortunately the maintenance on the mine ventilation means that we won’t be able run mine tours, but there’s […]
Mine Maintenance
Unfortunately the mine is going to be closed for a further weekend while we finish the maintenance that we started last week. We are retro-fitting a new starter to our […]
Spooky goings-on!
For Halloween the AVLR are swapping steam power for scream power, with an evening of Halloween Ghost Trains! The Ghost Trains start from about 4pm and run until 8pm, normal […]
Sentinel “Our Heroes Awards”
Last night the Apedale Heritage Centre was honoured to be first runner up at the Sentinel Our Heroes Awards, in the “Community Group of the Year” category. The very deserving […]
Railway Gala Pics
Another AVLR Gala under our belt. We may have been a little unlucky with the weather but it was still a great weekend with plenty of things going on. If […]
The News at Ted
Due to the popular Apedale Valley Light Railway Teddy Bears Outing this weekend, Apedale Heritage Centre had a good turnout of teddy bears and other assorted toy animals. Some of […]
Teddy Bear’s Outing
Next weekend (10th/11th) is AVLR’s Teddy Bear’s outing, and in the museum we are running a couple of activities for kids to go with it. There will be a Teddy […]
Upcoming Railway Events
In couple of weeks we expect to be overrun by bears! Not the fierce, bitey kind, but the fluffy, cuddly variety at the AVLR’s Teddy Bear’s outing. Kids who bring […]
Our inaugural Mining Gala
Any worries of Glastonbury Festival style mud baths or a lack of visitors were soon dispelled on Saturday when the people started to roll in along with fine weather. The […]
Day 1 of the Gala!
A few pictures from the first day of the gala have been posted on our facebook page, more should appear soon and we’ll have them up on this site when […]