Vallisoletan Association of Friends of Railway
Activities of ASVAFER
The most activities of ASVAFER are related with the promotion of the railway, organizing exhibitions or similar activities. The latest were:- Taking part in the Fair of Art and Restauration Heritage (AR&PA), where ASVAFER had a stand.
- The 20th railway exhibition in the next September. This exhibition is held once a year at the same time as the Fiestas of the city's patron, the Virgin of San Lorenzo. During this exhibition we show the models and the real equipment that we have. This exhibition has every year a lot of visitors.
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Taking part in the activity "X Toral en Tren"
in Toral de los Vados (León) on June the 4th and 5th During these days the local council of that village gave a good
example of promoting the railway in collaboration with some Friends of Railway Clubs from Castilla y León, Galicia and Madrid.
ASVAFER has taken part in this activity since the first edition in 2002.
In this link you can see a graphical report of the last edition of this activity.
More images of "X Toral en Tren".
Images and videos of previous editions:
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Collaboration in the exhibition "El Ferrocarril Punto de Encuentro", organized by
Adif, from 8th to 25th of May 2008 in the room "Estación Abierta" of
Adif in Valladolid. In this exhibition ASVAFER showed its
Valladolid railway area model where the Valladolid
railway station and the Valladolid Locomotive Depot with all its
buildings are replicated in H0 scale. Also it was possible to see the 1:7 scale locomotives
1818 (318.018) and
311.151.
Photos of the ASVAFER stand in this exhibtion:
In the context of this exhibition, on sunday May, the 18th at 19 h. our colleague José Luis Lalana spoke about "Transport and Industry Museum".
- Organization of the exhibition "El Ferrocarril en Valladolid" since March the 13th to April the 18th 2008 in Santovenia de Pisuerga (Valladolid). In this exhibition photos, diferent railway tools and a H0 scale Valladolid railway area model with Valladolid Campo Grande Station, the Locomotive Depot and other interensting buildings for the viewpoint of Industrial Archeology were shown .
In the last few years we have organized activities so the people of Valladolid could know about the Locomotive Depot of Valladolid. This depot has a pioneering design unique in Spain. The most important was the exhibition in the Fair of Art and Restauration Heritage (AR&PA), where ASVAFER had a stand
We have several plans including the promotion of turistic railways (Ribera de Duero Train) and to build a Railway Museum in Valladolid. In order to achieve these plans we are restoring some historic railway equipment.
We have some machinery to develop activities related with Driven Models and we are looking for a place near Valladolid to build a circuit where we can run Driven Models, which is a very popular activity in many places of Spain.
Our Association has also collaborated in four scale G railway circuits in Parque Temático del Mudéjar de Olmedo (a park with small scale models of emblematic buildings of Castilla y León). A visit is recommended. (see the photograph).
Some years ago our association published a magazine and we still have some issues:
Index of the last issues of the magazine ASVAFER
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Translation: Ma. del Carmen Tamayo Molinero.
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