At last the long wet days of winter seem behind us, with some good weather and corresponding good progress on numerous projects outside, and the…
The third post from January, looking at the Armstrong Whitworth car and stationary engine, is on-hold for a week or so whilst some more content…
With plenty of content by mid-January, there will be enough material to have three posts this month, covering something of the variety of workshop and…
Welcome to the first post on Beamish Transport Online of 2026 – Happy New Year! As forecast in the review of 2025, there will be…
As has become traditional for this blog, I have compiled a review of 2025’s activities (well, some of them!) and outlined these as a month-by-month…
This month has passed by in something of a blur, with lots happening, and therefore quite a bit to report. The separate post regarding the…
There is just the one post this month – there was plenty to report in May, and June has been a process of putting the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Welcome to Beamish Transport Online 2020 – Happy New Year and here we go with the eleventh year of the transport blog covering the operational…
As has become something of a tradition, here is a review of the last 12 months (which make up a year that has absolutely flown…
Having featured buses quite extensively in recent weeks, we return, in this post, to matters of steam, with some updates on locomotive projects underway at…
Another busy couple of weeks have flown by, so here are some news items to keep abreast of work taking place within the transport department…
I start with an apology – this post will feature Samson, a lot! There has been a comment regarding the railway-heavy content on this blog. …
A short post this week – time having run away from us for a lengthier report! Bus Depot Below: David Watchman took these photos for…
The inevitable focus this week is on the arrival of Box 40 from Blackpool, and its subsequent commissioning prior to entering service at Beamish. I’ve…
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…
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!). …
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…
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