Its been a particularly busy week, with lots happening right across the Transport & Industry operation. Separate posts cover some of the activities in the Colliery…
Another mixed bag on the news front this week! A good deal of work has also en taking place on our ‘Remaking Beamish’ development, with…
A mixture of workshop news and operations this week – with the first weekend marking our enhanced transport activity around site, something which will be…
Behind the scenes there is much planning taking place in anticipation of the winter maintenance period, which as ever will see a focus on the…
We’ve missed a few weeks with the regular reports, so here is a quick round up of happenings over the last few days in the…
Well, its been a busy and slightly unusual week. Tuesday morning saw the early starters arrive to find that vandals had paid us a visit…
Its been another of those weeks which starts with Monday and seems to reach Friday without any sense of the passage of time in between,…
We are nearly halfway through the year now, and I have adopted a week number for the blog heading to differentiate general news from feature…
Another snapshot into life in the RHEC on a typical Friday…!!! I will look at developments on R025 as part of the next ‘Rolling Restorations’…
It has been a few weeks since I reported on Samson’s progress, so here is a synopsis of recent, exciting, progress… Below: The drain cocks…
After a little break in the reports on Samson’s rapid construction, which in no way indicates an absence of progress (!), here is an update…
With so much going on out on site, with the Festival of Transport dominating, I haven’t reported much on our other activities. We have had…
Samson’s progress this week has echoed the manic quest to get ready for the new season occurring all around it, with a major step being…
It has been a few weeks since we last looked in on progress on Samson, but this doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been a great…
In this post we will have a look around the site, and RHEC, at some of the other projects taking place that haven’t been looked…
After a few days leave here is the latest T&I news from Beamish. You may also notice some subtle changes to the Blog, part of…
An eclectic round up this week. I am trying to keep the update posts at least weekly, with feature posts as and when they are…
David is focusing intensively on Samson’s cylinder block construction at present, hoping to trail fit the completed block onto the boiler shell next week, enabling…
The big project in the workshop at the moment is the rebuild of the decks of the gallopers, to be followed by the rounding boards….
The winter period is a key one for us in terms of carrying out maintenance and advancing projects on a number of fronts. Here is…
Looking back over the year, it is quite something to think that in April, Samson was no more than a set of frame plates awaiting…
Work on all fronts continues at a startling rate – how did we cope without the facilities we now have?! I’ve already sketched out the…
Work on Samson has seen a major accomplishment over the last week, with David trial fitting the new crankshaft and then spending a great deal…
The Christmas season is now in full swing, whilst various capital and maintenance projects are also under way, with the team contributing to a number…
Work on Samson continues each day, with tangible progress usually evident, and if not, a pile of swarf confirms things are progressing nicely! Below: Tony cut…
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