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…
There will be a number of separate posts over the next week or so covering some news from the transport side of things at Beamish,…
Another busy week! With two significant new arrivals into the collection, much progress on other projects and another exciting development in the offing, the usual…
With all of the events of the last month, the regular news on the blog has been somewhat interrupted. Here are some snippets of news…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 4th April A shorter posting this week, in anticipation of a plethora of postings as we get…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 28th March 2014 This week we have a fairly full posting, reflecting lot of work in the…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 21st March 2015 Another busy week behind us and with the weather warming up and projects on…
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