Well, its been a busy and slightly unusual week. Tuesday morning saw the early starters arrive to find that vandals had paid us a visit…
A shorter post for last week as there has been a detailed look at the Leyland Cub restoration in a separate post, and other works,…
Julian is currently working through a large collection of prints that were donated some years ago. Such is the volume of photographic material that we…
Leyland Cub No.716 Here is the first in what will no doubt be a regular series featuring the restoration of Leyland Cub 716, which is…
Its that time again – the annual narrow gauge steam festival at Threlkeld Quarry Museum near Keswick, being held from Friday to Sunday July 25…
If sweat is any indication of hard work, we have had a very hard week this week! I’ve reported elsewhere on No.18’s trials, so here…
No.18 was in steam again today to enable Matt to test some modifications to the injector pipework to increase the amount of steam reaching the…
Is there such a thing as a quiet week?! Another busy one with lots of activity, a sample of which is presented here, along with…
In this ‘Rolling Restorations’ I will review various roller related activities, starting with the restoration of Beamish’s D4 roller, R025. R025 Below: R025 came to…
While working through the collections cataloguing recently, Julian Harrop came across these scenes of Seaham Harbour, showing work on the construction of the concrete staithes…
Here is an exciting press release from the Tramway Museum Society… We are excited to announce in our 50th year of running electric trams at…
Its been another of those weeks which starts with Monday and seems to reach Friday without any sense of the passage of time in between,…
As we rapidly approach the mid-year point, here are some photographs of just two of the activities we in the T&I team have been busy…
Today Tony, Brian and I met a party from Historic Vehicle Restorations and our Leyland Cub’s previous owner for a session preparing it for collection…
The owner of Edward Sholto has had the injectors for the engine overhauled, at some expense, to remedy the original reason for it being taken…
It seems that we are busier than ever at the moment and it is hard to remember everything we have going on in the T&I…
A new car has joined the working collection at Beamish, having been purchased from an accomplished car restorer in Staffordshire. The aim is to provide…
I have alluded to the new accessible bus that we are creating at Beamish, based on Leyland KP2 Cub Crosville No.716. Here is a little…
We are nearly halfway through the year now, and I have adopted a week number for the blog heading to differentiate general news from feature…
The 22nd June saw a hugely popular open day at Seaham Harbour, featuring our own Coffee Pot No.17 and a chaldron waggon alongside a selection…
A slightly different weekly report, just to ring the changes on endless workshop views that otherwise rather dominate the blog! You can also find new…
The weeks seem to pass faster and faster, this week being no exception and it is hard to believe it is Friday once again, with…
There is lots to report on this week, both activity on site as well as coming up away from the Museum, plus a glance over…
With all of the news about the future developments to the forefront of our minds, here is a look around at the projects that continue…
As promised in an earlier post, here is a look at just some of the proposed developments that we hope to be creating at Beamish…
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