Return of the trams! We’ve waited a long time for this day, and it has been something we know visitors have keenly missed up to…
This week has certainly been a warm one! Looking at some of the track on site, we’ve had a fair bit of distortion in the…
In this post we look at some non-engineering activities that have been underway over the last week or so… Work is still underway to look…
We’ve a strong engineering bias to this week’s post. Matt has been taking detailed photographs of various processes that are often referred to but not…
We roll onwards towards the summer, with various jobs receiving attention. The priority is to commission Crosville 716, complete the repairs to Puffing Billy and…
The weeks are becoming busier as the teams get into their stride with the backlog of maintenance jobs accrued over the last year or so. …
There has been plenty going on this week, so it is nice to compile a detailed blog post recording some of the activity. I tend…
In June 2014, we announced the purchase of our next accessible bus, know more correctly described as a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (as it is often…
We’ve reached the summer half term holiday, including a Bank Holiday Monday within it, and the museum has certainly become much busier. We had targetted…
We’ve had quite a bit to report recently, so hopefully readers are enjoying a certain revitalisation of the blog news as a result?! General news…
Monday 17th May marked the beginning of Step 3 in the Government roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions. As part of this, we are now able…
Last week Beamish reopened, though not without a few dramas along the way (as might be expected when waking any site from a period of…
It is hard to believe that it is mid-November already! I was writing up some notes for the next edition of the Beamish magazine (which…
As members of staff return to work from their lengthy furlough, the workshops and technical teams are assessing the engineering and transport systems as we…
I hope readers will forgive another round of images featuring Crosville 716… We visited the bus today to view progress and discuss some of the…
Once again it has been a bit tricky finding news to report on this blog, as the transport situation remains static, with the two Daimlers…
There is, it has been pointed out, a danger of this blog becoming the Beamish Bus Blog – somewhat inevitable, perhaps, given the only transport…
The schools have gone back and we are now contemplating operations under the new ‘normal’ outside of the school holiday period. The weather has been…
The summer holidays are now drawing to a close and with school children anticipated to return to school next week, this weekend (a bank holiday…
This is the twentieth post since we closed in March, so I thougth I would start with thanking everyone who contributed to the blog during…
The blog has been a little quiet lately, but this has been due to the extensive behind the scenes preparations ahead of the announcement (and…
The Motor Buses at Beamish Museum In 1987 Beamish introduced its first dedicated bus service for visitors to the Museum’s extensive site, connecting Pit Hill…
There is something of a bus theme this week! However, to provide some balance, the steam locomotives are included, whose steam tests ahead of the…
As usual, here is a bit of a roundup of news from the transport and engineering team… I’ve also included some words from Andrew Neale,…
Welcome to Beamish Transport Online 2020 – Happy New Year and here we go with the eleventh year of the transport blog covering the operational…
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