Ok, so the title may be slightly mixing biblical history, but it neatly describes the current rapid progress in the construction of Samson’s frames. Once…
Below: Smiths, old and new – several decades separate these two vans, but both are products of a local firms to us, Smiths Electric Vehicles….
There is a lovely video of the Beamish Tramway 40th anniversary weekend on the Glasgow 488 website that might be of interest to readers: http://www.488.cyberpictures.net/yt-beamish2013.htm…
Below: This 1921 Excelsior single cylinder motorcycle is a new addition to the collection, purchased for Beamish by the Friends and formerly part of the…
Today we hosted the British Association of Removers, who are holding their AGM in the north east and had arranged for a wide selection and…
There was a lot of banging and hammering in the RHEC Erecting Shop today – the RHEC being the Regional Heritage Engineering Centre (we pronounce…
Here are a few photos that might be of interest. Firstly, Samson, sporting its frame extensions and now with pretty much most of the metal…
A new gallery of 1970s transparencies has been added to the blog – under the heading ‘galleries’ in the menu bar. I’ve added captions to the…
Its been a little while since I put a general news post onto the blog/website, so here are some of the things going on at…
A team of the Friends workshop volunteers have set about dismantling the Barford & Perkins motor roller, R025. The aim is to break it down into its…
With the kind cooperation of the editors of Old Glory and Narrow Gauge World we are now able to offer more articles on Beamish transport…
This fascinating photograph (by an unknown photographer) recently came to light on e-bay (thanks to Andy for the tip off!). It shows Sheffield 513, sans truck, jacked…
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