Looking back at the folder for ‘October blog images’ I was surprised to see just how many photos there were in it! It has certainly…
Coffee Pot was a last minute addition to the Stephenson Steam Railway Railway 200 event over the weekend of the 25/26th October. This visit took…
I thought that an update on progress with the restoration of 4085 Dunrobin was timely, with the locomotive having had its hydraulic boiler test this…
The 27th September is an important day in the calendar for railway history, being 200 years, to the day, since the opening of the Stockton…
Dunrobin’s new dome components arrived recently at Bridgnorth, enabling the boiler reconstruction to be completed. The next steps in the process (after water testing for…
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…
As readers will know, Dunrobin’s restoration is being undertaken at the Severn Valley Railway’s engineering works at Bridgnorth, where exciting progress is being made towards…
May is going to be another busy month! The notable occurrences are the re-commencement of operation at Rowley Station (24th May), and the Festival of…
As we approach the Festival of Transport, a host of buses, road vehicles, road steam engines and railway locomotives are lined up to appear over…
It is now five years since the last passenger operations at Rowley Station, during February half-term 2020 and featuring Peckett 0-6-0ST No.2000. Not long afterwards…
This second instalment of April’s Workshop Diary contains some new threads, covering development work associated with Oporto 196, further signage developments and progress reports on…
It is surprising (or maybe not!) just how quickly we get to Easter each year – traditionally the focal point for completing the winter maintenance…
For the final post of the three Workshop Diaries this month, we catch up on a few of the jobs not covered in detail elsewhere… …
After being a little obscure about the potential identity of our next visiting locomotive, I can now confirm (as one or two of you guessed)…
After mentioning that there would be a change to our event format for 2025 (see the post below), I can now confirm our 2025 programme,…
We are approaching the end of the month of February, and already there seems to be a lot that has taken place this year! When…
Welcome to the transport blog and the beginning of our 2025 content… A slightly shorter post this time as I’m keeping some material for separate…
It has become customary on this blog to look back at the past year, and also look ahead to some of the projects and developments…
Last week I made a trip to Bridgnorth for a catch-up session with the Severn Valley Railway Engineering Services team who are carrying out the…
The blog returns after a short break (as I was on annual leave), with a summary of work that has been taking place in the…
There is lots to report this month. It is also worth noting that we had to cancel the rest of Sir Berkeley’s steaming dates here,…
There has been a great deal of interest in the visit of Manning Wardle No.1210 Sir Berkeley to Beamish, and having promised further steamings, here…
I think it is fair to say that the blog is becoming more of a monthly newsletter now – and certainly for the T&I posts,…
Welcome to 2024! I very much hope to increase the rate of posting this year, as it fell a little behind my own aspirations for…
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