Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society
About Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society
Founded in September 1990 The Appleby Frodingham railway preservation society was formed to preserve the industrial railway heritage of the local area, mainly revolving around the steelworks.
Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society Description
The Appleby Frodingham railway preservation society was formed in 1990 to preserve the industrial railway heritage of the local area
we operate railtours around the Scunthorpe works of British Steel . These are held most summer Saturdays, and are usually hauled by one of our fleet of industrial steam locos .
We do not make a charge for these tours , but donations are requeted at the end of the tour , to help cover our operating costs , all places must be prebooked via the Brigg tourist information centre Telephone 01652 657053 or e-mail brigg. tic@northlincs. gov. uk
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Important announcement !
Its almost the end of the season with only 3 more tour dates until December!
Our Final rail tour dates are the 8th , 22nd and 29th of September. ... Also see the poster regarding the members bbq attached to this post.
Only carriage tour places are now left.
THE BRAKE VAN TOUR ON THE 29TH IS FULLY BOOKED.
All being well cranford will be operating the services.
If you wish to book places, details are on the events for how to contact brigg tourist information centre.
To find us. See the map on the Facebook page. This will guide you to the platform area on brigg road where you will see a brown sign for rail tours. From here walk through the garden to the platform gate entrance .
Please remember that if you are booked on a tour to be here on time. The carriage tour leaves the frodingham platform on brigg road at 1330 for about 2.5 hours
The summer brake van tour will leave the frodingham platform 1630 lasting about 2 hours
So please make sure you arrive at least 15 minutes before the departure times.
There is no fee for the tours. But the tours are not cheap to run. We run on donations alone so any money you are willing to give is more than welcome, donations are taken at the end of the tours with donation buckets.
We hope to see you then!
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Bored and looking for something to do in the rain. Why not visit the Gainsborough model railway society. Open today and tomorrow .
Our next rail tour dates are the 1st of September and the 8th of september.
the 1st of september is a carriage and brake van tour. The 8th is a carriage tour only
All being well cranford will be operating the services.
... If you wish to book places, details are on the events for how to contact brigg tourist information centre.
To find us. See the map on the Facebook page. This will guide you to the platform area on brigg road where you will see a brown sign for rail tours. From here walk through the garden to the platform gate entrance .
Please remember that if you are booked on a tour to be here on time. The carriage tour leaves the frodingham platform on brigg road at 1330 for about 2.5 hours
The summer brake van tour will leave the frodingham platform 1630 lasting about 2 hours
So please make sure you arrive at least 15 minutes before the departure times.
There is no fee for the tours. But the tours are not cheap to run. We run on donations alone so any money you are willing to give is more than welcome, donations are taken at the end of the tours with donation buckets.
We hope to see you then!
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Our next rail tour is this Saturday 25th of August (now sold out) and then one week later on the 1st of September.
The 25th of August is a carriage tour only , but there are 2 tours on the 1st of September, One carriage and one brakevan.
All being well cranford will be operating the services.
... If you wish to book places, details are on the events for how to contact brigg tourist information centre.
To find us. See the map on the Facebook page. This will guide you to the platform area on brigg road where you will see a brown sign for rail tours. From here walk through the garden to the platform gate entrance .
Please remember that if you are booked on a tour to be here on time. The carriage tour leaves the frodingham platform on brigg road at 1330 for about 2.5 hours
The summer brake van tour will leave the frodingham platform 1630 lasting about 2 hours
So please make sure you arrive at least 15 minutes before the departure times.
There is no fee for the tours. But the tours are not cheap to run. We run on donations alone so any money you are willing to give is more than welcome, donations are taken at the end of the tours with donation buckets.
We hope to see you then!
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Our next rail tour dates are the 25th of August and the 1st of September.
The 25th of August is a carriage tour only , but there are 2 tours on the 1st of September, One carriage and one brakevan.
All being well cranford will be operating the services.
... If you wish to book places, details are on the events for how to contact brigg tourist information centre.
To find us. See the map on the Facebook page. This will guide you to the platform area on brigg road where you will see a brown sign for rail tours. From here walk through the garden to the platform gate entrance .
Please remember that if you are booked on a tour to be here on time. The carriage tour leaves the frodingham platform on brigg road at 1330 for about 2.5 hours
The summer brake van tour will leave the frodingham platform 1630 lasting about 2 hours
So please make sure you arrive at least 15 minutes before the departure times.
There is no fee for the tours. But the tours are not cheap to run. We run on donations alone so any money you are willing to give is more than welcome, donations are taken at the end of the tours with donation buckets.
We hope to see you then!
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Have you been enjoying our recent tours ? Please rate us and leave us feed back!
Just a few photos from this weekend.
We have the crew of cranford for the day. Which ran the normal carriage tour and brake van tour
And the private booked Freightmaster Interactive tour. We will post more information on how to book these
Are you joining us on the tour today. If so we hope to see you soon and don't be late !
Last week two of our members had a week away, during that week they visited the Avon Valley Railway Official. the reason for their stop here was to see the tkh49 locomotive.
The locomotive karel 4015 of 1947 was sold to UK ownership in 1993 and after a series of sales came to the Avon valley railway where she was operational till 2013. Then overhauled and returned to service where ticket currently lasts her till 2026.
She was a brilliant locomotive to ride behind and all of t...he crew said she was a dream to drive/fire. They allowed us to go on to the footplate to see just what our hutnik will one day be like when she is rebuilt.
We thank the railway and the staff for there hospitality and we hope to see them again. We also hope they will visit us sometime.
Who knows. Maybe one day we will see hutnik and karel together.
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carriages not your thing ?
why not join us one one of the last few summer brake van tours, each lasts around 2 hours exploring areas of the site the carriages cannot make.
please note that there is a minimum age of 10 years old and there are no toilets avaliable on this service, tours leave at around 1630.
... there is no charge for the tours but donations are taken, the tours still cost the society money so any donations given will allow us to keep these tours going for future generations.
If you wish to book places, contact details are on the events.
we only have 3 more of these summer evening dates remaining, so dont miss out.
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The latest offering of model janus from Golden Valley Hobbies is the allied steel and wire janus from Cardiff
Allied steel and wire once also owned the scunthorpe rod mill for many years
https://www.goldenvalleyhobbies.com/allie d-steel-and-wire-j…
... Also available from our shop at our shed
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Once again next weekend (4th august) we have a 2 tour format for the beginning of August.
All being well cranford will once again be operating the services.
If you wish to book places, contact details are on the events.
... Please remember that if you are booked on a tour to be here on time. The carriage tour leaves the frodingham platform on brigg road at 1330 for about 2.5 hours
The brake van tour will leave the frodingham platform 1630 lasting about 2 hours
So please make sure you arrive at least 15 minutes before the departure times.
Tours are donations only.
We hope to see you then!
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For those of you that attended the carriage tour yesterday. How was the commentary and could you hear it well enough?
We hope you enjoyed the tours with us today. We hope to see you next weekend!
Are you visiting us for our tours today. We have the usual carriage tour hauled by steam locomotive "cranford".
And as a special this evening is the diesel loco janus no1 on the brake van tour.
Here we have no1 being prepared by the team to shunt cranford out of the shed.
... We hope you are along with us today
Please remember that if your booked on a tour to be here on time. The carriage tour leaves the frodingham platform on brigg road at 1330.
The diesel hauled brake van tour will leave the frodingham platform 1630
So please make sure you arrive before the departure time.
We hope to see you later!
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Some interesting history from British steel
https://britishsteel.co.uk/blog/british-s teels-past/…
What a fantastic day out such a long trip for free unbelievable knowledge of the guy doing the commentary couldn't of asked 4 anymore
Would love to go again more than willing to donate again
Well worth a visit, great tour of the steel works.
Well organised and very informative. Clearly the staff enjoy what they do.Refreshments sensibly priced. A great day out.
Very friendly railway and interesting site. Plenty of diesel trains to see whilst being pulled round by a steam engine.
Put the brakevan ride on your bucket list!!!!!!
My Son and I thoroughly enjoyed the brake van trip yesterday. Staff were friendly, and it was good to see at least one operational Janus similar to the one we help look after. Well presented and restored steam loco and the brake vans. A unique location, and railway. I pass nearby every month and never knew how big the site is, and how expansive the railway network still is. As a railway nut it was excellent, shame we don't get to see all of the railway or loco's, and were back at the station just after 18.30,As we are also into photography we took 100's of photo's. There is so much to see of the industrial nature of the works, the blast furnaces and everything around. It was amazing, had it been possible could have spent hours there. Industry as it used to be! Photo's will be posted on our website,AFRPS are welcome to use any of interest. :) Happy to send you a link.
Many thanks for making a special day for my family on the rail tour today.
Lovely little preserved industrial line - with some great tours (especially the brake-van tours, as these can go places the coaching stock can't). Brilliant to see a working steelworks in operation too, with their various locos. We were lucky and got to run down near the blast furnaces and watch a loaded torpedo wagon coming out - the sheer heat coming off it was quite something to experience!
Very friendly and knowledgeable volunteers/staff too, as we went all around the huge site.
Will certainly be re-visiting them again soon.
I so happy to be helping maintenance the steam loco I have won't to do something like this from when I was a little boy and I get to learn a lot about the loco and even how they run and help when they do steam trip i am so enjoying my time helping out at the appleby frodingham presporvation society i think my dream has came true all with a few weeks they got me help on the steam locos by putting the coil in the fire box when on a steam tour trip round steelworks
Had an amazing day great people completely unexpected - highly recomended
Had a great time with the family on the steelworks rail tour. Very informative. Highly recommended �
Fantastic tour worth at least £10
Couldn't believe just how big the works is the commentator was really good all the volunteers was friendly and helpful. The gift shop and food carriage was affordable to everyone. A little long at 3hrs 40mins and need to add to advert about donations as I didn't bother taking much cash and would of donated more if I'd of known. Definitely recommend if your into learning the knowledge of the works it was very interesting. Thanks to all who give up there spare time to make this possible x
Brilliant tour throughly enjoyed the day out well done to all involved in the railway.
A very interesting and informative tour around the vast steelworks. I can't recommend it highly enough. On a personal note it was great to see two Janus locos similar to the one my grandfather drove on Appleby Frodingham works 50+ years ago.
A great day out. We enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanks to all.
What a fantastic day out such a long trip for free unbelievable knowledge of the guy doing the commentary couldn't of asked 4 anymore
Would love to go again more than willing to donate again
Well worth a visit, great tour of the steel works.
Well organised and very informative. Clearly the staff enjoy what they do.Refreshments sensibly priced. A great day out.
Very friendly railway and interesting site. Plenty of diesel trains to see whilst being pulled round by a steam engine.
Put the brakevan ride on your bucket list!!!!!!
My Son and I thoroughly enjoyed the brake van trip yesterday. Staff were friendly, and it was good to see at least one operational Janus similar to the one we help look after. Well presented and restored steam loco and the brake vans. A unique location, and railway. I pass nearby every month and never knew how big the site is, and how expansive the railway network still is. As a railway nut it was excellent, shame we don't get to see all of the railway or loco's, and were back at the station just after 18.30,As we are also into photography we took 100's of photo's. There is so much to see of the industrial nature of the works, the blast furnaces and everything around. It was amazing, had it been possible could have spent hours there. Industry as it used to be! Photo's will be posted on our website,AFRPS are welcome to use any of interest. :) Happy to send you a link.
Many thanks for making a special day for my family on the rail tour today.
Lovely little preserved industrial line - with some great tours (especially the brake-van tours, as these can go places the coaching stock can't). Brilliant to see a working steelworks in operation too, with their various locos. We were lucky and got to run down near the blast furnaces and watch a loaded torpedo wagon coming out - the sheer heat coming off it was quite something to experience!
Very friendly and knowledgeable volunteers/staff too, as we went all around the huge site.
Will certainly be re-visiting them again soon.
I so happy to be helping maintenance the steam loco I have won't to do something like this from when I was a little boy and I get to learn a lot about the loco and even how they run and help when they do steam trip i am so enjoying my time helping out at the appleby frodingham presporvation society i think my dream has came true all with a few weeks they got me help on the steam locos by putting the coil in the fire box when on a steam tour trip round steelworks
Had an amazing day great people completely unexpected - highly recomended
Had a great time with the family on the steelworks rail tour. Very informative. Highly recommended �
Fantastic tour worth at least £10
Couldn't believe just how big the works is the commentator was really good all the volunteers was friendly and helpful. The gift shop and food carriage was affordable to everyone. A little long at 3hrs 40mins and need to add to advert about donations as I didn't bother taking much cash and would of donated more if I'd of known. Definitely recommend if your into learning the knowledge of the works it was very interesting. Thanks to all who give up there spare time to make this possible x
Brilliant tour throughly enjoyed the day out well done to all involved in the railway.
A very interesting and informative tour around the vast steelworks. I can't recommend it highly enough. On a personal note it was great to see two Janus locos similar to the one my grandfather drove on Appleby Frodingham works 50+ years ago.
A great day out. We enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanks to all.
What a fantastic day out such a long trip for free unbelievable knowledge of the guy doing the commentary couldn't of asked 4 anymore
Would love to go again more than willing to donate again
Well worth a visit, great tour of the steel works.
Well organised and very informative. Clearly the staff enjoy what they do.Refreshments sensibly priced. A great day out.
Very friendly railway and interesting site. Plenty of diesel trains to see whilst being pulled round by a steam engine.
Put the brakevan ride on your bucket list!!!!!!
My Son and I thoroughly enjoyed the brake van trip yesterday. Staff were friendly, and it was good to see at least one operational Janus similar to the one we help look after. Well presented and restored steam loco and the brake vans. A unique location, and railway. I pass nearby every month and never knew how big the site is, and how expansive the railway network still is. As a railway nut it was excellent, shame we don't get to see all of the railway or loco's, and were back at the station just after 18.30,As we are also into photography we took 100's of photo's. There is so much to see of the industrial nature of the works, the blast furnaces and everything around. It was amazing, had it been possible could have spent hours there. Industry as it used to be! Photo's will be posted on our website,AFRPS are welcome to use any of interest. :) Happy to send you a link.
Many thanks for making a special day for my family on the rail tour today.
Lovely little preserved industrial line - with some great tours (especially the brake-van tours, as these can go places the coaching stock can't). Brilliant to see a working steelworks in operation too, with their various locos. We were lucky and got to run down near the blast furnaces and watch a loaded torpedo wagon coming out - the sheer heat coming off it was quite something to experience!
Very friendly and knowledgeable volunteers/staff too, as we went all around the huge site.
Will certainly be re-visiting them again soon.
I so happy to be helping maintenance the steam loco I have won't to do something like this from when I was a little boy and I get to learn a lot about the loco and even how they run and help when they do steam trip i am so enjoying my time helping out at the appleby frodingham presporvation society i think my dream has came true all with a few weeks they got me help on the steam locos by putting the coil in the fire box when on a steam tour trip round steelworks
Had an amazing day great people completely unexpected - highly recomended
Had a great time with the family on the steelworks rail tour. Very informative. Highly recommended �
Fantastic tour worth at least £10
Couldn't believe just how big the works is the commentator was really good all the volunteers was friendly and helpful. The gift shop and food carriage was affordable to everyone. A little long at 3hrs 40mins and need to add to advert about donations as I didn't bother taking much cash and would of donated more if I'd of known. Definitely recommend if your into learning the knowledge of the works it was very interesting. Thanks to all who give up there spare time to make this possible x
Brilliant tour throughly enjoyed the day out well done to all involved in the railway.
A very interesting and informative tour around the vast steelworks. I can't recommend it highly enough. On a personal note it was great to see two Janus locos similar to the one my grandfather drove on Appleby Frodingham works 50+ years ago.
A great day out. We enjoyed it thoroughly. Thanks to all.