Here is a small taste of the future trolleybus operation at Beamish… Newcastle Corporation Transport Below: In connection with a ’60th birthday treat’ for a…
With the Great North Festival of Transport now behind us, I thought I’d glance back at the Great North Steam Fair, our opening event, having…
Before the blog gets back into the routine of restoration and news reports, I thought a post to tidy up various lose ends might be of interest. The…
Michael Goldsmith, our Electrician, is pleased… ‘His’ van, the 1933 Commer, has been repainted and now wears his name and role. The previous drab…
For the spring gathering (April 19th) at London Bus Museum, Brooklands, Historic Vehicle Restoration took our future accessible bus, Leyland Cub 716 (ex Crosville) along to the…
With the Horses at Work weekend ahead, and all of our railways (including the wooden waggonway) in operation, Matt E and I spent the afternoon preparing Edward…
A shorter post for the last day as the weather was not kind and more photos can be found in the growing gallery here: http://46.32.240.35/beamishtransportonline.co.uk/imagegalleries/great-north-festival-of-transport-2015/…
Another sunny day but with a freezing wind across the site – undeterred the visitors came in their thousands and many additional exhibits arrived for…
Another busy day and with more exhibits arriving, the variety keeps growing! Here are a few shots grabbed during the day to show just…
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…
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