8th November 2011 Last week a small delegation from Beamish was made very welcome by the staff at Blackpool Transport Services, at what is for…
7th November 2011 A recent e-bay discovery and purchase was this wonderful view taken at Seaham Harbour some time in the 1950s and showing Lewin,…
7th November 2011 A bit of a gap since the last post as a lot going on. Here are some of the activities of the…
31st October 2011 Below: I called in to see Vince Allen this morning and drop off more components for Lewin. Whilst there I was able…
28th October 2011 Below: Yesterday a lengthy shunt took place to extract the Armstrong car from the garage showroom. During the move the Daimler lorry…
25th October 2011 Below: This view shows Pockerley loop sans siding, with the newly reinstated plain running lines now in use. This has enabled the…
23rd October 2011 Dave Young has had a mega-session in his workshop and turned the gunmetal blanks seen in an earlier posting into these finished…
21st October 2011 Lots happening this week! I conclude the week with a look at the Forcett coach at Stanegate Restorations & Replicas in Haltwhistle….
21st October 2011 Whilst in the area (visiting Alton Engineering) I called in at the National Tramway Museum at nearby Crich. Two trams were operating…
21st October 2011 Yesterday (Thursday) Jacob was collected and taken to Statfold barn, its new home. Here are some views showing it being loaded (onto…
21st October 2011 Yesterday was spent in Derbyshire, firstly visiting Alton Engineering to view progress on Lewin’s boiler which is now in the repair bay…
19th October Whilst on my travels I called in on the Birkenhead Tramway. This interesting line with a varied collection of restored trams has featured…
18th October Below: Whilst I’ve been off Dave Young has been turning a pile of castings into some beautiful machined components, these components assembling into…
18th October 2011 Well, over a year after it arrived, the Blackpool Balloon tram ex No.703 and now known as Sunderland 101 has entered passenger…
17th October 2011 Below: A trip on the Ffestiniog Railway, some 13 miles long between Porthmadog and Blaenau Festiniog, is always a superb experience and…
17th October 2011 Below: Having had the delights of the Ffestiniog Railway on the Tuesday, on the Thursday we embarked, again from Harbour Station, onto…
17th October 2011 A cruise on the Manchester Ship Canal… Merseytravel, using one of the famous Mersey ferries, runs regular day cruises along the MSC…
17th October 2011 I’ve had a couple of weeks off work enjoying a bit of r&r but work has continued at Beamish on all fronts…
30th September 2011 Having wondered what had happened to the summer, it has appeared this week with glorious (almost tropical) weather all week. As usual…
26th September 2011 Below: David Jordan kindly sent through this image of our 513 and 501 together at the East Anglian Transport Museum – the…
26th September 2011 Further digging into the history of the bogie well wagon reveals it to have been ex British Steel Corby, No.66, which moved…
23rd September 2011 Here is a quick summary of some of this weeks happenings…. Below: Coffee Pot No.1 in steam to shunt the well wagon…
19th September 2011 Below: The LNER/BR derived well-wagon has been cleaned, primed and painted and tomorrow should take up its new role as part of…
12th September 2011 Below: The final stage of Dunrobin’s exploratory work is now all but complete with the inner firebox having been removed last week….
12th September 2011 On Sunday (after the long cross country run from Lowestoft!) I made it to Apedale near Newcastle under Lyme/Stoke on Trent. This…
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