Below: 196’s truck was removed this morning to enable the wheelsets and motors to be stripped out and receive overhauls and wheel re-profiling. The truck…
To ring the changes the blog has been given a bit of a makeover and thanks to Andy Martin’s efforts it now looks much sharper…
29th November 2011 Readers of this blog may be interested in a new post which Beamish is currently advertising on the main website – for…
28th November 2011 As readers of the blog will no doubt be aware, the Transport & Industry department at Beamish is a great beneficiary of…
25th November 2011 Below: The work to prepare the tram depot floor for partial removal of concrete to allow track laying has been completed. The…
25th November 2011 Andy Basnett called in today and brought the following photographs showing his restoration of the Hodbarrow side tipper body to date. Below:…
23rd November 2011 Below: This morning a Brimec type lorry arrived to move the Waggonway train from Pockerley to the Colliery, partly to free up…
22nd November 2011 Our Christmas season opened on Saturday and as part of this Father Christmas was subjected (!) to a trip to Durham aboard…
18th November 2011 Road 4 is getting longer, as the two photos below show. The rails are working their way around the traction pole (and…
18th November 2011 Vincent Allen has completed the overhaul of the wheelsets for the Hodbarrow side tipper. Meanwhile, the ironwork for the chassis has been…
16th November 2011 Below: Work continues on Road 4 – more rails are being brought in from store and placed ready for laying out and…
15th November 2011 Below: Sunderland 101 leaves the depot and crosses the new pointwork in the yard. Below: Initial marking up of Road 4 is…
15th November 2011 On Saturday I was at the Apedale Valley Light Railway in Stoke for a meeting. Appropriately for the weekend (Remembrance Sunday) two…
11th November 2011 Below: Brian has been working on recommissioning the Armstrong Whitworth car. The magneto (which generates the spark – this car does not…
9th November 2011 Below: Well, they did it! The turnout was installed and the team even got around to removing the remains of the tramway…
9th November 2011 Here are a few photographs (taken on my phone so I apologise for the rather weak colours and poor quality) showing some…
8th November 2011 Last week a small delegation from Beamish was made very welcome by the staff at Blackpool Transport Services, at what is for…
7th November 2011 A recent e-bay discovery and purchase was this wonderful view taken at Seaham Harbour some time in the 1950s and showing Lewin,…
7th November 2011 A bit of a gap since the last post as a lot going on. Here are some of the activities of the…
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