Below: Darren and Mark, assisted by Jonathan and Jack, have started their winter maintenance work on the railway line at Rowley. This includes replacement of…
Here are some of Andy Martin’s fantastic night images from the Jason Cross/David Williams photo charter. There are more to follow, which I will add…
Yesterday (like today appears to be promising) was generally bright and sunny, or at least not raining! A number of additional transport attractions were at work,…
Here is a reminder that this weekend is the last of this year’s enhanced transport events, where we use the first full weekend of the…
We recently had the opportunity to acquire the remains of Manning Wardle No.254 built in 1868. The locomotive, once named Newcastle, had worked at Silverdale Colliery…
Below: Despite some quite heavy snow showers last night and this morning, the sun shone for most of the day and Blackpool 304 joined 101,…
Following some remedial work and further testing, Blackpool Coronation 304 will be placed into service this weekend and we shall endeavour to make available for…
Below: After much hard work by Brian, Hughie, Tom, Peter and David (from the LTT), commissioning and static testing, 304 ventured out onto the circuit…
Below: G&I 26 now has working replica roof mounted headlights, in readiness for several forthcoming winter evening events as well as a photo charter. The…
Below: Here are two views showing that Dave Young has been as busy as ever! He is currently engaged in some development work with me…
Its been a while since I put a news roundup on the blog, and I feel I have neglected it slightly in recent weeks on…
As has been shown on this blog on numerous occasions before, I am a great fan of the Welsh narrow gauge railways, in particular the…
On Friday the much anticiapted arrival of Blackpool Coronation tram No.304 took place. The tram was swiftly unloaded and placed inside the depot (which it…
I’ve had numerous comments regarding the format of photographs when opened from the blog. This may be due to the screen size used to view…
On Saturday the Museum hosted a reunion for staff from the Dene motorcycle works in Newcastle. Latterly a dealer, in its early years it built…
Here is a further selection of scenes taken today whilst we displayed, in action, some additional transport and industry based artifacts. Over the weekend we…
Today we enjoyed a number of additional transport attractions in action around the Museum, including Coffee Pot No.1, Mary Margaret (Marshall traction engine), the SOS…
This evening we took delivery of the Quarry Hunslet ‘Edward Sholto’ – it is anticipated that the locomotive will be in action this coming weekend…
Hello and welcome to the blog, now hosted on Word press and hopefully with much clearer access to a wider range of information relating to…
The NRM Locomotion at Shildon is holding one of its ever-popular steam events this weekend, with the theme being ‘tank engines’. Our own No.18 and Y7 985…
I have previously hinted in these short missives that there were ongoing negotiations to bring a resident narrow gauge locomotive to our little system…
Below: Whilst the big lumps of Dunrobin are subject to the attentions of various specialists, there are some smaller jobs that we can progress from…
The National Tramway Museum at Crich held a weekend special event to mark 50 years since the closure of the enormous tramway system in Glasgow…
A very special autumn visitor for the Beamish Tramway – Blackpool ‘Coronation’ No.304… Here is some news that nobody was expecting… We are very pleased…
This afternoon witnessed a milestone in No.18’s restoration, well, reconstruction would probably be a more accurate word, when the engine moved under its own steam…
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