The Moseley Railway Trust is a major British collection of industrial narrow gauge locomotives and other equipment. It originally had its base in south Manchester, but has completely relocated to the Apedale Country Park near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire where a passenger railway is now open and an important museum is being established.
Moseley Railway Trust has completed construction of Phase 1 of the "Apedale Valley Light Railway", which opened to public passenger trains during July 2010. Plans for the large new museum building have been approved by the Local Council and it is intended that some construction will commence during 2011.
It is planned that there will eventually be an industrial demonstration railway line running around the perimeter of the MRT/Apedale Heritage Centre site, connecting with a recreation of an adit called No 7 Drift (from which coal was extracted by the previous occupiers of the site, the Aurora Mining Company, until around 1996).
Read more about Moseley Railway Trust: Overview, Gallery, Locomotives
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