Last weekend was the first ‘enhanced transport performance’ weekend of the year, which as posted here previously will see the first weekend of every month (except January) have a greater number of working transport attractions around the Museum, so as to showcase more of the motorcycle, bicycle, car, commercial, railway and horse drawn collections that we have (or those visiting us on longer term loans) at Beamish and so that enthusiasts or visitors who particularly want to see, say, Coffee Pot working, will have a good idea of when such operation can be expected to take place. These don’t replace or eliminate working at any other time, just offer the chance to ‘put a date in the diary’.

Despite snow there were a number of things to see on Saturday including Coffee Pot, the 6T Wallis steam roller, Marshall ‘Mary Margaret’ and horse drawn deliveries (seen below delivering wood to the shed we store lighting-up material in at the Colliery). Colin Slater supplied the shot of Coffee Pot – something of a classic scene but not one much exploited by photographers…