Its been a while since I put a news roundup on the blog, and I feel I have neglected it slightly in recent weeks on…
As has been shown on this blog on numerous occasions before, I am a great fan of the Welsh narrow gauge railways, in particular the…
On Friday the much anticiapted arrival of Blackpool Coronation tram No.304 took place. The tram was swiftly unloaded and placed inside the depot (which it…
I’ve had numerous comments regarding the format of photographs when opened from the blog. This may be due to the screen size used to view…
On Saturday the Museum hosted a reunion for staff from the Dene motorcycle works in Newcastle. Latterly a dealer, in its early years it built…
Here is a further selection of scenes taken today whilst we displayed, in action, some additional transport and industry based artifacts. Over the weekend we…
Today we enjoyed a number of additional transport attractions in action around the Museum, including Coffee Pot No.1, Mary Margaret (Marshall traction engine), the SOS…
This evening we took delivery of the Quarry Hunslet ‘Edward Sholto’ – it is anticipated that the locomotive will be in action this coming weekend…
Hello and welcome to the blog, now hosted on Word press and hopefully with much clearer access to a wider range of information relating to…
The NRM Locomotion at Shildon is holding one of its ever-popular steam events this weekend, with the theme being ‘tank engines’. Our own No.18 and Y7 985…
I have previously hinted in these short missives that there were ongoing negotiations to bring a resident narrow gauge locomotive to our little system…
Below: Whilst the big lumps of Dunrobin are subject to the attentions of various specialists, there are some smaller jobs that we can progress from…
The National Tramway Museum at Crich held a weekend special event to mark 50 years since the closure of the enormous tramway system in Glasgow…
A very special autumn visitor for the Beamish Tramway – Blackpool ‘Coronation’ No.304… Here is some news that nobody was expecting… We are very pleased…
This afternoon witnessed a milestone in No.18’s restoration, well, reconstruction would probably be a more accurate word, when the engine moved under its own steam…
We have asked David Elliott to assist us with the work to procure a new cylinder block for Sharp Stewart No.4085 ‘Dunrobin’. As has been…
No.985 looked rather at home at Tanfield this weekend, and is seen here shunting Marley Hill yard in these views taken earlier today. The Tanfield…
Here are a few more photos of G&I 26. As mentioned before in the blog, the distinctive headlights are in production and should be fitted…
Below: We’ve had quite a bit of sunshine this week, the view below being taken as the H class and Y7 were being shunted ready…
On the Saturday evening of the PftP event, after the main photography evening had finished, Andy Martin carried on into the dark, taking these wonderfully…
Here are a few shots of G&I 26 at work today – typically the sun disappeared at the crucial moment, and there are limitations to…
Well, here we are again at the end of another event, with all the work reversed to get everything back to where it came from! …
Another heavily Colliery biased selection of photos – as ever check out our Flickr pages for a wider selection. I didn’t get much chance to…
Here is another selection of, largely Colliery based, images of the event – which was blessed with quite a bit of sunshine. Also featured are some…
A busier day than yesterday, probably thanks to better weather and with the event finding its stride. Again I was a bit limited in photography…
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