Workshop Diary March 2025 Part 1

Workshop Diary March 2025 Part 1

This month there is so much content available that we’ll split the workshop diary into two posts – this being the first of those, and…

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Workshop Diary SCT No.2: January Update

Workshop Diary SCT No.2: January Update

The conservation/restoration project being applied to Sunderland Corporation bus No.2 (a 1929 Leyland Lion LT1) continues.  Whilst most of the attention is to the saloon…

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Workshop Diary January 2025

Workshop Diary January 2025

Welcome to the transport blog and the beginning of our 2025 content…  A slightly shorter post this time as I’m keeping some material for separate…

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2024 - End of year review (and a look ahead to 2025)

2024 – End of year review (and a look ahead to 2025)

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…

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Workshop Diary November 2024

Workshop Diary November 2024

Welcome to another Workshop Diary – the last month has flown by, and so this report covers something of the end of the high-season, whilst…

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Workshop Diary September 2024

Workshop Diary September 2024

Welcome to the latest blog post and in particular, hello to new readers who are joining from the museum’s Facebook page.  The blog has been…

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T&I News 12 2024

T&I News 12 2024

This post takes a different approach to the usual ‘workshop diary’ format of my posts on the blog.  In the post below, I’ve attempted to…

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T&I News 9 2024...

T&I News 9 2024…

The blog returns after a short break (as I was on annual leave), with a summary of work that has been taking place in the…

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T&I News 8 2024...

T&I News 8 2024…

In this post we find trams at the centre of attention, with work progressing on Gateshead 10 and Lisbon 730, as well as some interim…

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T&I News 7 2024...

T&I News 7 2024…

Welcome to the latest blog post, which is something of a mixture of report and thought – as you’ll see below.  The workshops are busy,…

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T&I News 5 2024...

T&I News 5 2024…

There is lots to report this month.  It is also worth noting that we had to cancel the rest of Sir Berkeley’s steaming dates here,…

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Sir Berkeley Steaming dates...

Sir Berkeley Steaming dates…

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…

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