20th April 2011 Neville Whaler, who was demonstrating in the Rowley Station signal box on Sunday, kindly sent these terrific views of his day at…
20th April 2011 Below: The Model Ts are seeing increasing use around the Museum and the van is seen here leaving the town on an…
20th April 2011 765 is enjoying some glorious weather as it operates in normal service (currently two and three trams per day) at Beamish. I…
18th April 2011 We are currently concluding arrangements with the Severn Valley Railway to send Dunrobin directly from Liverpool (where it will disembark the ship)…
18th April 2011 Whilst the GNSF has been the foremost preoccupation over the last few days, other projects have been proceeding. Bob Whetham sent these…
17th April 2011 Well, its been and gone. Most of the visiting exhibits have left, those remaining are packing ready to leave early in the…
17th April 2011 Here is another selection taken today, a glorious hot one with very high visitor numbers flooding into the Museum to enjoy some…
16th April 2011 These photos arrived today courtesy of Bob Whetham at Fort Steele and show Dunrobin being loaded onto a road trailer prior to…
16th April 2011 Here is a selection of photos from the event today, when the sun shone, 765 was repaired and able to run and…
15th April 2011 Today the event settled into something of a routine. The Y7 threw up a few foibles and unfortunately Manchester 765 has run…
14th April 2011 Here is a selection of photos from day one of the GNSF – the weather was overcast which doesn’t improve them, but…
13th April 2011 This morning the press call for the GNSF was held, with Coffee Pot in steam reunited with Baxter (which was out of…
13th April 2011 Last night Andy Martin took some atmospheric night time photographs of the shunting operations to put Baxter undercover. A clear night was…
12th April 2011 Below: Two views of Baxter looking very fetching in the Colliery. Tonight I’ll steam Coffee Pot and carry out some shunting to…
12th April 2011 A combined effort between the Heaton Park Tramway and Beamish Tramway Group volunteers saw 765 make its first moves at Beamish late…
12th April 2011 Dave Antell arrived last night with Baxter – this is the first time I’ve seen it since its very recent overhaul and…
11th April 2011 A quick news snippet on a fairly hectic Monday as the event looms ever closer…!!! 765 arrived safely from Blackpool, was quickly…
9th April 2011 All around the site work is carrying on in the Friends workshop, the tram shed and at the Beamish Model Engineers site,…
9th April 2011 Here are some views of the Y7 at work this morning. It suits the varnished teak of the GER Saloon rather well!…
9th April 2011 Here are two very pleasant views of the Y7 after being pulled out of the RMS shed pending lighting up yesterday. This…
9th April 2011 A few evenings ago, a particularly warm and glorious one at that, I took Rambler for an evening saunter around the site….
8th April 2011 These days it seems that we are offered fewer donations, certainly of a larger nature, so we were delighted some time ago…
8th April 2011 Despite an all out effort by Phil Anderson, the Beamish Tram Group and Peter Barlow assisted by our plant engineer Brian Williams,…
7th April 2011 The chip van was moved to its new home today, being pulled by resident Clydesdale horse ‘Bonnie’. Here are some views of…
5th April 2011 Below: 114 is now receiving top coats, though it isn’t too clear in this view! Below: It is rather clearer here though…
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