Grimsby & Immingham 26 at large…
Here are a few shots of G&I 26 at work today – typically the sun disappeared at the crucial moment, and there are limitations to what a compact camera can manage, but hopefully 26’s livery can be seen to effect, and I think it looks really good! The lights should be fitted next week, and it will thereafter be in almost daily service through until early next year when we bring it into the newly upgraded workshop for a light overhaul and full repaint into Gateshead livery once again. So enjoy it while you have the chance as it will probably be a very very long time before a BR green ex Gateshead tram can be seen in daily use!!!
No.10’s repaint has been very greatly supported by the Tramways Monthly website and e-magazine – for more details see http://tramways-monthly.com for more information and reports.
As for 10/26 (I don’t think we’ve quite arrived at a convention for its identity!), it can look forward to a later winter overhaul and repaint which will see the restoration of its Gateshead livery, repairs to the roof advertising boards, new doors, replacement windscreen frames, interior work (including painting the rather conspicuous air tank, fitted as a last minute replacement for the original which was failed during routine inspection but which I would like to restore to the car following repair in due course). It is also known to be low on tyre mileage and this will probably be the next tram to be so tackled, once Sunderland 16 has received attention this autumn.
Never a dull moment on the Beamish tramway and look out for the weekend of October 6/7 when will have our usual enhanced transport operation for the first full weekend of the month, with maybe one or two surprises in store…
It was great seeing 26 at the PFTP event, a superb job has been done. I was wondering if there are still plans to revive Sheffield 264 in the near future?
Thank you for your comments, I know its repaint hasn’t been everybody’s cup of tea, but it is authentic and only temporary!
Re Sheffield 264, yes, the plan is to start next spring. Currently the workshop plans are to re-tyre Sunderland 16, the work to put Gateshead 10 back into Gateshead livery in time for the Beamish Tramway 40th anniversary gala next April, and also complete the improvements to the workshop area to enable longer term projects to commence, the first of these being Sheffield 264. I would envisage it taking between two and three years to complete the rebuild, with as much as possible being carried out in-house. I will, of course, be posting any news on this on the blog…
Hope to pop in after visiting the Tanfield on Saturday – hope to see 26 and the Armstrong Whitworth in action. Shame about those so against it on certain other social network sites – it’s only very temporary and there’s still the other Gateshead tram in Gateshead colours at Crich, I think Beamish are to be commended for making it happen and taking the opportunity to do so