May is going to be another busy month! The notable occurrences are the re-commencement of operation at Rowley Station (24th May), and the Festival of…
As we approach the Festival of Transport, a host of buses, road vehicles, road steam engines and railway locomotives are lined up to appear over…
After being a little obscure about the potential identity of our next visiting locomotive, I can now confirm (as one or two of you guessed)…
After mentioning that there would be a change to our event format for 2025 (see the post below), I can now confirm our 2025 programme,…
It has become customary on this blog to look back at the past year, and also look ahead to some of the projects and developments…
There has been a great deal of interest in the visit of Manning Wardle No.1210 Sir Berkeley to Beamish, and having promised further steamings, here…
Our first Wheels of Industry event has been and gone, with nearly 11,000 visitors over the two days, making it successful operationally and commercially. Despite…
The week has been dominated by the arrival of exhibits for Wheels of Industry this weekend, and preparing the various railway exhibits for operation. Here…
It has been a while since I sat at the keyboard to write a blog post! A combination of things have conspired to reduce the…
For this post I thought we’d focus on the recent transport gala and the narrow gauge railway in particular, given that we presented both a…
Another lengthy break in blog posts, due to having taken some unplanned leave. But work has continued on various fronts, and plans/arrangements remain underway for…
I thought I’d better have a post to note the recent Steam Gala and Easter weekend – both of which were extremely busy for the…
The day before our transport events usually sees various guest exhibits being inspected and tested, prior to their appearance on the busty event days. This…
This is a short post, as there will be some content this weekend as we get into our Spring Steam Gala. Below: Barclay 1219 arrived…
This post marks a return to regular blog updates after some interruption in recent weeks – there has been a great-deal going on, which hasn’t…
This post is a bit of a sweeping up of lose ends exercise, with various bits of news to report. We also had updated figures…
Well, that was quite a weekend!!! The first Beamish Steam Gala format event was blessed with decent weather, superb exhibits and a very good visitor…
This week, as alluded to in the previous post, has been around preparation for the Steam Gala. On Thursday, some of the heavy haulage exhibits…
This week is, as would be expected, all about preparing for the Beamish Steam Gala this coming weekend. The first exhibits arrived on Monday, with…
Planning for the April Steam Gala continues, and we are now in a position to announce some more exhibits. All the way back in 2017…
In various posts in the recent past I have alluded to our review of all things operational and events. We are now finalising our events…
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