Winter Colliery Railway Photo Charter...

Winter Colliery Railway Photo Charter…

Martin Creese recently arranged a photographic charter at Beamish where we provided visiting Barclay 0-4-0ST ‘No.22’ and Coffee Pot No.1 for a day long session…

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Transport & Industry news update 26th March 2013...

Transport & Industry news update 26th March 2013…

Well, I had hoped that I might report on the pleasant warmth of spring and the progress made on numerous projects out in the fresh…

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Forcett Coach Restoration progresses - delivery expected in a matter of weeks...

Forcett Coach Restoration progresses – delivery expected in a matter of weeks…

The restoration work being carried out on the Forcett Coach by Stanegate Restorations & Replicas is rapidly drawing to a close with the coach due to arrive…

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Tram Depot Road 4/5 Energised...

Tram Depot Road 4/5 Energised…

The Beamish Tramway Group (Les, Peter and Mel) and Museum staff (Hugh) have been busily completing the work previously reported to wire then energise Road 4/5 in the depot area. …

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Great North Festival of Transport update...

Great North Festival of Transport update…

With all postings regarding the GNFoT the caveat ‘subject to availability’ is always carefully included and regular readers of the blog will no doubt know that…

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Samson - March progress and the brake gear is coming together...

Samson – March progress and the brake gear is coming together…

Whilst the current focus for the team is on preparing for the season opening next week, completing the RHEC, working on a number of capital projects…

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No.22 arrives from Bowes...

No.22 arrives from Bowes…

The Bowes Railway’s Barclay 0-4-0ST No.22 arrived at Beamish this morning, was unloaded then steamed in order to carry out some shunting and move itself to…

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Aveling Barford catalogues added to the blog...

Aveling Barford catalogues added to the blog…

There are three more road roller related trade catalogues available on the blog.  A full catalogue for Aveling Barford ‘Grantham’ series machines, a smaller machine specific sheet…

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General Transport news roundup w/c 11th march 2012...

General Transport news roundup w/c 11th march 2012…

Lots happening and lots to report.  A huge amount of work is going on in preparation for the GNFoT in April, but the day-to-day duties also remain…

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A few items of stop press transport news...

A few items of stop press transport news…

It has been a while since I posted – a reflection on our workload rather than lack of things to report! You may have read…

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