The final weekend of our festival is in full swing, centred around community banner marching and celebrating the centenary of the peak year of coal…
Whilst the event has inevitably dominated (taken over?!) life lately, other things have been taking place in this department, a smattering of which are shown…
It may only be a few days since the steam fair ended, but already we are ploughing on with the rest of the event and…
We’re really pleased with the new ‘Forty Years of Service’ book which has just arrived from the printers… It is a detailed history of the Beamish…
This afternoon the restored Forcett Coach No.179 (formerly Stockton & Darlington Railway), from 1865, arrived back at Beamish. Earlier posts on the blog will give you more…
Progress on erecting and drilling Samson’s frame components is well underway, with Dave making full use of the mag-drill to enable the trial assembly by…
Today was rather busy getting back into the stride of ‘normal’ life at work, but here are some photos taken yesterday before the mass exodus…
Here are a few photos taken by Andy Martin, Colin Slater and Neville Whaler during this weekend’s section of the festival… (Remember, if you double-click on…
We were greeted by reasonably warm and sunny weather today – and the Museum was busier than anyone can recall – it was packed. Some…
Here is a fairly random selection of photos taken today – again not featuring many of the road vehicles as I was largely confined to…
Below: Here is a selection of quickly grabbed images taken today showing just a few of the things going on at Beamish – I didn’t…
This morning ‘Rocket’ arrived at the Museum, and was promptly unloaded outside the Great Shed. It is due to operate on Saturday and Sunday. As…
Its been a busy day at Beamish, with preparations for the Great North Steam Fair (GNSF) underway. One of the most time-consuming and complicated elements (not…
Andy Martin kindly supplied some images that he took of yesterday’s fantastic tramcar parade. The event had a wonderful atmosphere and to see the street…
Here are a few grabbed shots taken today during the third day of the festival, which seemed busy and was certainly attended by some superb…
Following today’s arrival and commissioning, Glasgow 1068 has completed the required tests and observations on the tramway this evening and will be ready for service…
This morning we had two significant arrivals – Glasgow 1068 arrived from Crich and is currently being unloaded, whilst the frames for Samson also appeared and…
Below: Well, the event is called ‘Our Friends – Electric’ and this has certainly been borne out – a team from the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society…
Here is a bit of late news – typed with numb fingers! Lisbon 730 arrived safely and was unloaded this evening, driving into the depot…
Well, the event is upon us and despite the trials and tribulations of a long and hard winter (and though sunny, it is still very…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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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