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…
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…
Well, nearly two weeks have passed since the whirlwind that was the 2017 Great North Steam Fair. The event can be considered to have been…
A sunny start was soon solid cloud for the day (the sun returning at around 6pm!), but the event got into full swing and so…
It has been a busy day at Beamish, and with so much to get ready, not many photos were captured, but for what it is…
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…
With less than a week to go until the 2017 Great North Steam Fair, most of our work is centred on the preparation for this…
A double-post this week, to round things off and catch up with news around the team… Plus the sun shone for some photos to be…
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