Well, here we go – the Great North Steam Fair has begun… Build up Below: In the weeks before the event, a huge amount of…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 4th April A shorter posting this week, in anticipation of a plethora of postings as we get…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 28th March 2014 This week we have a fairly full posting, reflecting lot of work in the…
All the things you never wanted to know about A Series seats and were too polite to avoid asking! There is a danger that this post…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 21st March 2015 Another busy week behind us and with the weather warming up and projects on…
On what turned out to be the first really spring like day of 2015 (i.e. it was warm enough not to need a coat, there…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 14th March 2015 Another week has flown by and whilst the days pass quickly, the workshops and site are…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 8th March 2015 Its slightly alarming to find we are now well into March and still feel…
This weekend saw the first of the programme of ‘Power from the Past’ weekends, with the theme for March being the tramway. As well as…
In this post we’ll have a look at some of the commercial vehicles attending – just for the sake of creating something of a theme. With…
I thought readers might be interested in following the painting stages of Samson as we begin the final stages of construction and gather the many…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 28th February 2015 With a number of other posts in preparation when the rather hectic diary allows,…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday February 21st 2015 Site work Below: The signalbox at Rowley Station is now nearing completion, with the…
The photo above shows the London Transport Museum’s ‘Battle Bus’ alongside Tom Fryer’s Crossley Tender – chosen as I could not get the blog template…
We’re still over a week from the deadline for return of invitations for exhibiting at the GNSF, but already there is a sizable response and…
Introducing the Battle Bus… We are very pleased to announce that the famous London Transport Museum ‘Battle Bus’ B2737 will be in attendance at Beamish…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 14th February 2015 As ever there is lots happening but not necessarily different enough in appearance to…
Today marks the 106th anniversary of the West Stanley Colliery Explosion. The event was the most deadly single explosion in the County, resulting in the…
I recently received a CD of images from Brian Tunnard, who has very kindly allowed them to be shared with a wider audience via the…
So, the Great North Steam Fair is but 9 weeks or so away and as ever, the pages of this blog will record just some of…
Portbury (or No.34 as we should refer to it as it is in the guise it appeared before being named), arrived at Beamish yesterday (Tuesday),…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 31st 2015 Bus Restoration Below: This week we collected our second Leyland Cub, HL9621, from a location…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 24th January 2015 Here is a mixed presentation of news from the team this week, covering site activities and progress…
The remarkable pace of restoration of our Leyland Cub (ex Crosville) continues as the Historic Vehicle Restoration team apply their skills to the mechanical rebuild…
For quite some time I have been aware that the blog stocklists are getting a little out of date. To this end, a new downloadable…
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