Below: No.18 has been relocated to Rowley Station in order to carry out the shunting associated with Christmas (grottos once again being assembled in the…
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…
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…
Below: A few years ago we were put in contact with a member of staff working at Foxton Locks (owned and operated by the Canal…
The weeks are becoming busier as the teams get into their stride with the backlog of maintenance jobs accrued over the last year or so. …
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…
There is quite a bit of news this week, so I’ll break it down into a sequence of posts, starting with a quick look at…
After all the excitement of holding a mini-event last week, here is a post to sweep up a few other developments and to display a…
Today we held our first transport event since 2019, tied in with the international Twitter Steam Rally (Matt explains what this is in the video…
Hello and welcome to the blog. The clocks have changed, we’re enjoying some warm, sunny weather, and we look forward to the first stage of…
T&I News 4 marked a notable step change in activity online and on site. This post follows the trend, reporting on the steam tests carried…
It has been some time since I compiled a general news roundup, so here is something to redress that. In terms of transport operation in…
Happy new year and welcome to Beamish Transport Online! As readers will no doubt realised, news is a little thin on the ground at the…
As material for the blog is a little in short supply at the moment, I thought that I would reflect upon one of our relatively…
For the first time in some months we have a post that doesn’t feature buses! The visit of Glyder’s owner, alongside the arrival back at…
Beamish has a long association with the railway preservation phenomenon of ‘new builds’ – the term used to describe replicas or recreations of locomotives that…
Following on from the previous post, we now move on to April 2010, ten years ago and with preparations underway for the Power from the…
We have a shorter post this week – progress on projects previously reported continuing apace, but which I haven’t had a chance to photograph! We…
There is something of a bus theme this week! However, to provide some balance, the steam locomotives are included, whose steam tests ahead of the…
Unbelievably, another February half-term is nearly over and we are enjoyed a fairly busy week at the museum, having largely escaped recent storms (other than…
As usual, here is a bit of a roundup of news from the transport and engineering team… I’ve also included some words from Andrew Neale,…
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