23rd September 2010 My journey around the South was completed by a visit to Hampshire County Council’s museum ‘Milestones’ in Basingstoke. This is based around…
23rd September 2010 Last Sunday I ventured into Hampshire to visit the Hollycombe Steam Museum, which includes a large working fairground (steam powered!) and narrow…
23rd September 2010 Last Sunday I ventured into Hampshire to visit the Hollycombe Steam Museum, which includes a large working fairground (steam powered!) and narrow…
23rd September 2010 Last weekend I travelled down to Old Warden (home of the Shuttleworth Collection) near Biggleswade for the Bedford Steam Fair. This is…
22nd September 2010 A start has been made on the ex Hodbarrow side tipping waggon that has appeared in these blog pages before. The Friends…
17th September 2010 A busy week at Beamish as it enters the second day of the Agricultural Show. On Wednesday Sunderland 101 (nee Blackpool 703)…
13th September 2010 Below: 1219 is complete! On Sunday we gave it a run, having had it on display over the previous week. Here is…
13th August 2010 This last weekend we held a mini-gala titled ‘The Geared Engine Gala’ featuring the three standard gauge engines plus Wallis traction engine…
6th September 2010 The museum seems awfully quiet today after the intensive last four days! The visitor figures were excellent, with over 13,000 attending over…
5th September 2010 A final brief selection of images at the end of a long and tiring weekend! Thanks to all of those who came,…
4th September 2010 The busiest day yet! Generally sunny and with large crowds all around the museum the place certainly had a buzz about it….
4th September 2010 In the evening when all the visitors are gone, locomotives, trams and traction engines come out to play… A selection of views…
3rd September 2010 Below: A selection of views taken this morning showing Blue Circle, Coffee Pot and the newly arrived Sir Vincent.
2nd September 2010 Here are the first shots of the Great North Steam Fair, showing visiting attractions as well as some of the home fleet….
1st September 2010 Well, here we are again on the eve of another big event… The weather today has been glorious and hopefully will hold….
31st August 2010 The weekend turned out to be something of a mini-steam event with a good selection of steam lined up for visitors –…
26th August 2010 Blog followers may have spotted that several of this months railway magazines were reporting that the forthcoming Great North Steam Fair would…
26th August 2010 Here is a selection of views showing progress on L1219 (see the original number in the last photo). Alan has fitted the…
26th August 2010 This morning a team of staff relaid the narrow gauge construction line, in readiness for the arrival of ‘Paddy’ on Friday, which…
23rd August 2010 ‘The Blue Circle’, A&P traction engine locomotive No.9449/1926, will be in steam this coming weekend – August Bank Holiday, on Sat, Sun…
24th August 2010 The Chaldron project is rapidly drawing to the close of several aspects of this important project. Dave Potter has all but completed…
23rd August 2010 This weekend we attended the Lincoln Traction Engine Rally with our Fowler DNAS steam roller Rambler. Also at the show was Michael…
23rd August 2010 Lots has been happening while I’ve been off… Below: The Gallopers are in one piece and are currently under test and being…
23rd August 2010 Here is a selection of views of Sir Cecil Cochrane from the Tanfield Railway during its working stint at Beamish…
23rd August 2010 Two more confirmations for the 2 – 5th September: Below: Anthony Lister’s Clayton & Shuttleworth ‘Louise’, a regular attendee at Beamish. Below:…
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