The inevitable focus this week is on the arrival of Box 40 from Blackpool, and its subsequent commissioning prior to entering service at Beamish. I’ve…
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…
Welcome to the blog in 2019. Here we have the annual summary of tramcar mileages as well as an update of what is going on…
For this post we have an eclectic mix of projects from the workshops and out on site… Rowley Station Below: With the assistance of the…
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…
More updates on ongoing projects and maintenance this week… The RHEC is making headway on a number of fronts, some of which are smaller jobs…
This week we see progress on vehicles and rolling stock – the high mileages of the bus and tram fleet being particularly noticeable at this…
More news from the RHEC in this post… On site work continues to repaint the Colliery screens/winder house building. The school holidays have begun too…
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…
With Easter only a matter of days away now, and the forthcoming Great North Steam Fair also on the very near horizon, a huge amount…
In the last blog post I promised to update with the Narrow Gauge motive power for the GNSF, once we had confirmation on what we…
It has been quite some time since a dedicated Narrow Gauge update so I thought I would do an update on the variety of work…
I can only apologise for the recent paucity of blog posts – their absence does not reflect a lack of things happening, rather that we…
There has been a bit of an interruption to blog posts lately – the site is to be migrated to a new server and so…
A shorter report this week, before a break for a couple of weeks… Plenty going on so there should be plenty to report in the next post…
Where are the weeks going? I can’t believe it is late July now and the summer, so much anticipated, is now well underway (and raining!). …
This week I’ve mixed news with some archive material that I thought readers might enjoy. We also look at the formal launch of the accessible…
Normal service is resumed in this post – with the latest progress from around the workshops. We also have No.18 back in traffic in the…
This week we have a more varied collection of news snippets, as various projects progress, some new ones appear and others draw (I really hope!)…
There has been a bit of a quiet spell on the blog lately – partly as not too much ‘new’ news occurred to report and…
It has been an eventful few weeks, though I apologise that blog coverage has been a little stifled lately. It has another small extension of…
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