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…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 14th March 2015 Another week has flown by and whilst the days pass quickly, the workshops and site are…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 8th March 2015 Its slightly alarming to find we are now well into March and still feel…
I thought readers might be interested in following the painting stages of Samson as we begin the final stages of construction and gather the many…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 28th February 2015 With a number of other posts in preparation when the rather hectic diary allows,…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday February 21st 2015 Site work Below: The signalbox at Rowley Station is now nearing completion, with the…
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