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 relocated to the Apedale Community Country Park near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, where the Apedale Valley Light Railway and an important museum are being established next to the Apedale Heritage Centre. Phase 1 of the narrow gauge Apedale Valley Light Railway opened to the public in during August 2010. Plans for the large new museum building have been approved by the local council and it was intended that 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 1998. Overview From summer 1998 to summer 2008, the trust's collection was in storage, initially at a site in Whaley Bridge, and later at a site at Buxworth in Derbyshire, having been forced to vacate its site at Cheadle, near Manchester, where it had operated a gauge railway – the Moseley Tramway – using its ex-industrial locomotives. Although starting work on site at Apedale on 6 April 2006, the trust formally took possession of the site on 13 April 2006 with partners Apedale Heritage Centre, the trust set about adapting the existing former mines buildings to serve as a base for the collection. A new locomotive storage building was constructed during 2008 to house the collection, although the collection continued to grow, rendering this space inadequate to house the current collection and necessitating provision of further storage in former shipping containers around the site. The main running line for the passenger railway was completed in July 2010 and opened the following month. The Silverdale station building was brought into use in 2011, and now houses a shop for books and souvenirs, as well as providing an information point and tickets sales for the railway. From 2011, construction was started on the foundations of a new museum building which will allow the trust to display its collection of industrial narrow gauge equipment that has been gathered from various industries around the UK since the trust's early days in the late 1960s. From summer 2013, the start of construction of a demonstration