New and interesting photographs continue to emerge from collections, online auctions and donations – here is a smattering of some of the recent material that…
Since the sad news of the death of Frank Atkinson, the museum’s founding Director, we wanted to mark his contribution to the Transport and Industry…
The title photo sums up much of what we try to achieve – to present to visitors a real sense of the past in tangible…
Having started to number the weekly news posts, it is clear that something went awry and we are a little short on numbers – I…
With the help of members of the Friends we were made aware of some interesting industrial relics in Northumberland. A 20ft set of workshop line shafting,…
In anticipation of the arrival of a new locomotive in coming weeks and the forthcoming Christmas Festival at the Waggonway, we’ve been carrying out something…
On Saturday we made a start with a new team formed to tackle narrow gauge projects on a volunteer basis, partly formed from staff and…
Another mixed bag on the news front this week! A good deal of work has also en taking place on our ‘Remaking Beamish’ development, with…
Behind the scenes there is much planning taking place in anticipation of the winter maintenance period, which as ever will see a focus on the…
We have a narrow gauge theme to this post… Below: Andy Martin visited us during the Power from the Past event, taking some stunning wet…
Well, the event is now behind us but the Agricultural Festival has much more to give, and the events continue through the rest of the…
In anticipation of the start of Power from the Past on Thursday, Matt and I have been preparing the various railways for the event. Today…
A bit of a mix this week (looking back at last week), starting with a look at the original Samson’s haunts at Cornish Hush… Samson…
Well, its been a busy and slightly unusual week. Tuesday morning saw the early starters arrive to find that vandals had paid us a visit…
No.18 was in steam again today to enable Matt to test some modifications to the injector pipework to increase the amount of steam reaching the…
Its been another of those weeks which starts with Monday and seems to reach Friday without any sense of the passage of time in between,…
The owner of Edward Sholto has had the injectors for the engine overhauled, at some expense, to remedy the original reason for it being taken…
With all of the news about the future developments to the forefront of our minds, here is a look around at the projects that continue…
Followers of this blog will know that for some time we have been developing our forward plan, looking at such areas as developing the Georgian…
As usual, here is the usual round-up of news from the Transport side of things around the Museum. More to follow next week… Below: Some…
Without a doubt the Great North Steam Fair last week was our best-ever transport event, receiving many favorable comments and seeing a huge variety of…
With so much going on out on site, with the Festival of Transport dominating, I haven’t reported much on our other activities. We have had…
The last two weeks have been busy preparing for and operating the first two four-day weekends of the Great North Festival of Transport. With so…
Although the museum site has been covered in mist for the past few days our Old King Coal celebrations and the opening of the Pony…
This morning the first of our visiting steam locomotives for the Festival of Transport arrived, in the shape of ‘Vulcan’, the former Vulcan works shunter…
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