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…
I realise that July is upon us and that I have not done the customary summary of 2022, let alone the look ahead to 2023…
Firstly, an apology for the long gap since the last blog post – I’ve been away and also dealing with some family matters, so haven’t…
This post covers quite a few aspects of the transport activity at the museum, as I haven’t posted for a little while and there is…
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…
Welcome to what is the last news update for 2022. I’m aiming to produce a review of the year, plus look forward to 2023 before…
In October 2021 we were delighted to reveal that one of the model railway manufacturers was producing a range of chaldron waggons in 4mm scale…
This week we are mainly looking at the heavy overhaul of Gateshead 10, and some of the progress made in the last couple of weeks….
Blog coverage has been a little disrupted this last fortnight, but plenty is going on, and for some of it I took photographs to illustrate…
This post sweeps up a few different themes, that reflect recent progress and look ahead to the forthcoming Beamish Steam Gala… As a result, there…
After a bit of a gap, the news returns… We’ve been very busy across the museum, in all departments. It is also the time of…
As has become the annual tradition, I thought a review of the year was timely, and like 2020’s article, it has the inevitable cloud of…
Last weekend, we had No.18 and No.1370 in steam in the late afternoon in readiness for darkness, when Andy Martin was visiting us in order…
This week there is quite a lot to report, so I will probably spill some of the image-based content into separate posts next week. Meanwhile,…
The weeks following the summer holidays often remain busy and that has been no exception this year. Whilst behind the scenes, work has progressed along…
I haven’t managed to take as many photographs this week – the site being generally very busy with visitors (which is good!) and the back-of-house…
We have a colourful variety of news items this week, starting with the Waggonway and then covering engineering and buses. We’ve had some rain this…
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…
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…
There are usually, with most projects at the museum, a raft of talented craftspeople working on discreet elements of the final exhibit, bringing their own…
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…
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…
A short post this time, as much of the progress made is a continuation of work seen previously, including Gateshead 10, whose engineering challenges are…
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