MOSELEY Railway Trust (MRT) has returned 20in gauge 20DL Ruston diesel 354013/1953 to operation and now intends to add a 20in gauge line at Apedale (where the Apedale Valley Light Railway system is nominal 2ft gauge) for it to run on.
Although there are more than 100 locomotives in its collection at Apedale, 354013/1953 has a special place in MRT’s history, having been the first loco to run at the collection’s original site at Cheadle School, in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, back in 1971.