
Most of this post is focused on the operation of buses at Beamish – including the rapid construction of the new depot and workshop as…

A few days on from the 2019 steam fair, here is a post with a few photographic highlights – which are a sample of what…

I realise I often refer to the Museum’s Facebook page as a source of information or images at times. But also realise that not all…

I’m sure blog readers will be interested to see what is happening with the Great North Steam Fair this weekend – it would be fair…

I start this post with a reminder that the Great North Steam Fair starts tomorrow! Four very full days of veteran road vehicles, trams, buses,…

Preparations are well underway for the forthcoming Great North Steam Fair. Friday and Saturday last week were spent shunting the Colliery standard and narrow gauge…

Apologies for the fairly lengthy gestation of this report – lots happening and a lot of work on Remaking Beamish to cover as well. Our…

The inevitable focus this week is on the arrival of Box 40 from Blackpool, and its subsequent commissioning prior to entering service at Beamish. I’ve…

One of the next elements of the Remaking Beamish programme to be commenced is a new, purpose-designed, bus depot. The work on site has already…

A glance through the content of this post reveals just how varied the work is, and how much is going on, carried out largely by…

For this post we have an eclectic mix of projects from the workshops and out on site… Rowley Station Below: With the assistance of the…

A mixed assortment of news this week… Vehicles Below: Following the successful installation of the refurbished engine (with new, to this bus, block), the old…

This week’s post is more of an interim one as I haven’t been around the site as much during the week… Steam Operations Below: Rambler,…

More updates on ongoing projects and maintenance this week… The RHEC is making headway on a number of fronts, some of which are smaller jobs…

A good deal of news from the machine shop this week… The Dandy coach is also progressing well, with varnishing and cosmetic detailing underway whilst…

This week we see progress on vehicles and rolling stock – the high mileages of the bus and tram fleet being particularly noticeable at this…

A shorter report this time – just to bring readers up to date on the items reported in post number 11… Rowley Station Below: The…

More news from the RHEC in this post… On site work continues to repaint the Colliery screens/winder house building. The school holidays have begun too…

Welcome back to the Beamish Transport Blog… As many of you will know, the original site suffered some issues recently, not least an amount of…

There has been a bit of an interruption to blog posts lately – the site is to be migrated to a new server and so…

Welcome back! After a few weeks break, posts are now resumed… Whilst I was enjoying a week in Wales, then at home and finally at…

A shorter report this week, before a break for a couple of weeks… Plenty going on so there should be plenty to report in the next post…

More of the same this week, with a lot of progress on all fronts, as you will read below… Rowley Station Below: Rob, one of…

Where are the weeks going? I can’t believe it is late July now and the summer, so much anticipated, is now well underway (and raining!). …

This week I’ve mixed news with some archive material that I thought readers might enjoy. We also look at the formal launch of the accessible…
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