14th April 2010

Wow! What a busy day as we set up for the PftP event, which starts tomorrow…

Below: The horse drawn street sweep and steam roller Rambler were involved in a press call at 11am – here we see the sweep (brought in from Bradford Industrial Museum). This is a remarkably effective device and is great fun to watch!

Below: Rambler and the sweep, also the water cart – dampening down the dust before sweeping takes place.

Below: The Tarmac Sentinel S6, unloaded and posed in the colliery.

Below: And later joined by the 1920 Tarmac living van, newly restored at Beamish.

Below: Much excitement greeted the arrival of Cardiff 131 from Crich – seen here with Sheffield 254 – a never to be repeated shot?!

Below: Over the pit for a commissioning inspection, and alongside fellow visitor, Leeds 6 – so that’s two works trams…

Below: … and here is the third – Blackpool Engineering Tram No.4! The tram looks stunning and I will post pictures of it outside tomorrow!

Below: Another view of Blackpool 4 (aka Blackpooll 31). Unfortunately we haven’t yet been able to extract the Blackpool tower wagon, but will persist…

Below: After the museum closed, 131 made a number of test runs around Beamish. Seen here entering the loop at Pockerley.

Below: This view of 131 in the town.

Below: And the traditional view in front of the bank (when the lighting is so lovely – hoe the weather continues in this vein!).

Below: Meanwhile in the colliery Graham Morris arrived with the two Wrens…

Below: Wren 3114 after unloading onto our temporary construction railway.

Below: Peter Pan slumbers in the ‘Wren house’!

I’ll be posting more images tomorrow – hopefully they will tempt blog readers to come and visit us! With more support we can plan even bigger and better (and more diverse!) events…