With work on Samson progressing on a number of fronts, Dave made a start on machining the cylinder block today. Below: Setting up can be…
Threlkeld Quarry is located just to the east of Keswick in Cumbria. The quarry is home to a mining/quarry museum and features a collection of…
With the Agricultural Power from the Past (APftP) event looming (August 29 – September 1st), opening the Festival of Agriculture which runs throughout September, the…
Last night we had a visit from the North East Bus Preservation Trust, who care for a large collection of vehicles with a north east…
The project to restore (or heavily ‘tart up’!) the Harry Vickers built 1950s caravan that we purchased earlier in the year is in its closing…
With another hot week drawing to a close, here is but a brief glimpse at the T&I team activities over the last few days… Below:…
A steam locomotive’s identity is always allocated to its frames – all other components can be swapped, changed or replaced, but its identity and traceability…
This week is a big one for Samson, with us taking the frames on a road-trip to Bridgnorth in order to have them finally riveted…
We recently managed a few days (well, a week!) in a very hot and sunny Wales, staying near Cricieth on the beautiful Cardigan Bay. This…
There is quite a bit of finishing work taking place on the RHEC (Regional Heritage Engineering Centre) at the moment, though much work still taking…
It’s been a while coming but the wait is surely worth it! The B-Type bus has now entered the final stages of its overhaul and…
Andy Martin has had another session using the Victorian era wet-plate collodion photography technique. Below: The mobile dark room and studio! To the left is…
Today has been a filthy wet day, with the site certainly looking lush this evening, if not particularly appealing! In the workshops Brian and Tom…
The recent gap in blog entries marked a ten-day break in Switzerland, journeying through the central Alpine region with Great Railway Journeys, a tour company specialising…
The construction of Samson’s cylinder block and valve chest owes quite a lot to experience from work on No.18 and also the book ‘Traction Engines…
The week hardly seems to have begun when it is already drawing to a close! There is progress on projects wherever you look, so here…
David and Chris have been busy progressing Samson’s construction, with the water tanks welded and bolted into place between the frames. The boiler barrel has…
Following a fortnight’s holiday (more of which in due course – inevitably such a break involved trains!) I returned and offer this post as a quick…
Below: Phil is well advanced on the B-Type bus’ repaint. It is seen here with adverts trial fitted (Vaux have been a great supporter of…
The Museum took part in a wider Festival of the North East this weekend, contributing numerous activities as well as a mini steam gala. The…
Its been a little while since I posted on the blog – there is a lot happening but much of it is progress in either…
Ok, so the title may be slightly mixing biblical history, but it neatly describes the current rapid progress in the construction of Samson’s frames. Once…
Below: Smiths, old and new – several decades separate these two vans, but both are products of a local firms to us, Smiths Electric Vehicles….
There is a lovely video of the Beamish Tramway 40th anniversary weekend on the Glasgow 488 website that might be of interest to readers: http://www.488.cyberpictures.net/yt-beamish2013.htm…
Below: This 1921 Excelsior single cylinder motorcycle is a new addition to the collection, purchased for Beamish by the Friends and formerly part of the…
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