Below: We’ve started the build up for the GNSF with arrivals of some of the stars of the show… Here is Duke of York, the Fowler crane engine and a seriously impressive piece of kit capable of lifting up to 12 tons!

Below: Another Fowler, this time the Stafford family’s road locomotive ‘Providence’.

Below: This Baguley petrol locomotive, a survivor from the Great War, is visiting from the Abbey Light Railway in Leeds.

Below: A familiar engine at Beamish is Alan Borthwick’s Aveling steam roller ‘Ayesha’, now with newly built living van in tow.