Some pictures from a very hot Apedale today....

The event was entitled 'Swords to Ploughshares' and was held to commemorate the centenary of the signing of The Treaty of Versailles, which finally ended the First World War.

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 The Kawasaki W800 at Apedale. OK riding down there this morning, but bluddy hot riding home!

First - a train ride! Hunslet 1215 (WD303) has brought the train in. Kerr Stuart 3014 Joffre (built in 1916 in Stoke for the French army) waits in the loop to take our train out again. 

 This lovely looking thing (Edgar) is the first of a batch of new-build 2ft-gauge, three-ton Decauville 0-4-0T locomotives built by North Bay Engineering Services Ltd.

 A couple if internal combustion WW1 rail tractors by the shed.

 3014 runs round at the end of the line.

 Cummin through!

 Backing down onto its train for the short return journey.

 Steam locomotive No.104 is an 0-6-0 well tank and was built in 1916 by Hudswell Clarke for Robert Hudson Ltd of Leeds for the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ghana.

This coach came from the Ffestiniog Railway. Apedale have fitted it with new bogies (from South Africa) and air brakes instead of the Ffestinog vacuum brakes.

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