31st March 2010

Two new arrivals today – engine and coach for the station passenger service which commences on Easter Sunday and should run every weekend through the summer season.

Below: Renishaw Ironworks No.6 arrived from Tanfield aboard Duncan Milner’s lorry. This engine is on hire until the end of May when Furness No.20 arrives to work for two months.

Below: Renishaw was quickly followed by the GER saloon from Appleby (on hire from the Furness Railway Trust), seen here squeezing in through the old costume gates.

Below: The saloon on Beamish tracks… We will hopefully be testing the railway tomorrow prior to the inauguration of the passenger service on Sunday…