A glance through the content of this post reveals just how varied the work is, and how much is going on, carried out largely by…
A mixed assortment of news this week… Vehicles Below: Following the successful installation of the refurbished engine (with new, to this bus, block), the old…
Welcome back to the Beamish Transport Blog… As many of you will know, the original site suffered some issues recently, not least an amount of…
This posting is largely pictorial and includes a few random galleries relating to recent events etc. RHEC Below: The Model T team have stripped the…
Professional photographer Dave Hewitt has once again sent through some of his superb images of the railway during the Great North Steam Fair… Many thanks…
Unlike previous years, I’ve not had a chance to add much about the steam fair this year – so here is a small gallery of…
With less than a week to go until the Great North (War) Steam Fair, Friday and Saturday have been spent preparing the Colliery area, largely…
Welcome back! After a few weeks break, posts are now resumed… Whilst I was enjoying a week in Wales, then at home and finally at…
Paul has been enjoying a few weeks away from the office so a different author for this post. The school holidays are still in full…
In a varied blog post, and my first for some time, I thought I would begin with a recent addition to the museum’s collection. Museum…
There has been a bit of a quiet spell on the blog lately – partly as not too much ‘new’ news occurred to report and…
We look at a couple of projects in a reasonable amount of depth in this post, in order to give them coverage they had otherwise…
Planning the Great North Steam Fair takes a great deal of preparatory work by a range of staff and volunteers. As a result, there are…
This time there is a little less from the workshops and a bit more from the sunny outdoors (sunny – not warm!)… This post covers…
It has been half-term week at Beamish, alongside which numerous pre-season works have been underway. Whilst we are a year-round attraction now, there is still…
This week features a brief snapshot of news items, taken around the Museum during the last working week. A great deal of other work is…
As has become customary, here is a brief review of 2016 and some of the highlights within the Transport & Industry/Site Support team. Needless to…
We’re back – for now at least! Here is a quick catch-up on recent news from the T&I department… Narrow Gauge Railway Below: Since the last…
This week’s post is something of a scrapbook, covering some workshop and site works as well as last weekends Power from the Past enhanced transport…
Here is a post to add some information on the forthcoming Power from the Past weekend (next weekend). The dates for this have variously been…
Having had a fortnight off, then a week catching up, there is quite a bit of content in this posting! It is also worth mentioning…
Two weeks have rolled by since the last posting of T&I news, the weeks seemingly passing at an ever-quickening rate! The team are currently assisting…
We have found ourselves in something of a spot – with the early departure of Portbury to cover a motive power shortage at its home…
We start this week’s post with news of a new arrival in the shape of a Doxford Crane Tank. This example is Roker, and whilst…
Another mixed week with news and event announcements in this post. Its also been a week of training and travelling, which always makes things interesting! RHEC/Site Support…
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