The pace of activity at Beamish at the moment is frantic, with progress on the Chip Shop, general grounds infrastructure, railway collections and looming developments occupying the staff to the full. On top of this we are about to concrete the floor in the railway section of the RMS (Regional Museum Store), entailing emptying it. Tomorrow! There will be photos but all of the stock will be outside for at least two weeks (bar the very precious items which will be locked in the goods shed). If you want to photograph anything in particular then next week is the time to do it! I’ll psot photos once the shunting is complete to show what is where…

Below: First move, today, was the remains of Gateshead tram 51 – a section of which is shown here. We collected this from the Ravensworth Estate five years ago and it remains as very much a ‘one day’ project. We do have quite a lot of the fiddly bits though which would re-fit to a new body…

Below: Peter Barlow is busy replacing all of the thousands of bulbs on the gallopers with LEDs, which also entails substantial re-wiring and refurbishment – in time for the Christmas season in late November. As a run about he is using the Smiths electric van – restored by the Beamish Tram Group some years ago but not often seen in the light of day – so here it is!