Category Archives: Apedale Valley Light Railway
Open for Business and Steam trains next week!
We’re happy to announce that the traveller’s have moved on, and so the Loomer Road entrance to the Country Park (and us!) is open again. This is in good time […]
Bears and Cars
This bank holiday weekend, the Railway is running a Teddy Bears Outing event. Kids can go free as long as they bring along a teddy bear (other similar stuffed toys […]
Loco Swap
A while ago the railway chaps asked if they could swap out the Motor Rail loco that’s been part of their display in the museum for many a good year, […]
Easter 2014 at Apedale
Despite our access problems (see earlier posts) we’re not letting that stop us having Easter fun. Today (Monday 14th April), Tomorrow (15th) and Wednesday (16th) we will be running mine […]
Winter Warmer
Tuesday and Wednesday this week are lobby days in our café, so if you are walking in the park it’s a great way to warm up. We’ve used local produce […]
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 […]
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 […]