We are looking forward to a heavy and focussed workload in the RHEC over the coming years, as present projects are completed and new ones…
The weather hasn’t been entirely kind to our last weekend of enhanced transport here at Beamish, and with Newcastle 114 as the star attraction it…
The half-term has arrived and the site is busy with visitors and staff, who are also preparing for the sell-out Halloween evenings, a couple of…
Dare I say we’ve been very busy lately?! It seems to be a repetition that hardly need occur, but in recent weeks has been particularly…
This week we have a bit of an engineering focus for those who are interested in the minutia of some of the jobs carried out…
We have quite a mixed bag this week – I’m trying to sweep up various bits of news and occurrences in one post! One last…
After some time in pieces, 1907 built Sheffield 264 has now been reassembled into a recognisable shape once again as it enters the final stages…
Well, autumn seems to have arrived – golden leaves are appearing across the Museum and we’ve been basking in warm sunshine for over a week! Rain last week did…
I’ve been off site quite a bit over the last two weeks so here is a quick summary of news for the blog, with the…
With the rolling frames of Samson more or less completed, we took the opportunity today to take them down to the narrow gauge railway and…
There has further narrow gauge activity at Beamish this week – here is a video of our riveting activity last week followed by an overview…
Its been a busy week! As the other recent posts reveal, activity can come in bursts, and last week was no exception for Samson, with…
As there are a number of other detailed reports appearing, this week’s T&I news is a shorter one. Below: The new entrance board to the…
After a little break in reports, here are some photographs showing the recent restoration progress on our new accessible bus, ex Crosville Leyland Cub No.716, which…
A slightly shorter post this week – mortgaging the available space we have available at present for storage of the blog and the rather large…
There is quite a lot to catch up with this week, so her we go with the usual varied round of news from the T&I…
Though the day to day demands of the summer holidays places the support teams under a great deal of pressure (not least due to the…
The Museum’s bus fleet is formed of three vehicles at present – two very good replicas plus one accessible bus. Of the two replicas, the…
Another week has passed by, and as ever it was a busy one in the T&I department at Beamish. I spent a few days on the…
Its been some time since we had a detailed look at two of our big railway projects – the restoration of Dunrobin and the construction of…
Here is the first of what will be an occasional series looking at the various members of the team and some of their activities within…
Its been a very busy week, and some items will be posted separately over the coming week (if I get a chance!), so here is a quick…
As we approach the longest day (Oh no! Now they start getting shorter!), the work to develop and maintain the transport collections continues. As we…
Exciting news! We are announcing two new jobs in the Transport & Industry/Regional Heritage Engineering Centre teams. Both can be found, with full details of…
In 2012 the ‘Indiana Three’ returned to the UK. Ex Penrhyn Quarry narrow gauge locomotives Winifred, Ogwen and Glyder returned from long exile in the…
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