
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…

This post has a little bit of variety, including work taking place both indoors and outdoors. We are still in a period of planning for…

It has been a while since I sat at the keyboard to write a blog post! A combination of things have conspired to reduce the…

For this post I thought we’d focus on the recent transport gala and the narrow gauge railway in particular, given that we presented both a…

Another lengthy break in blog posts, due to having taken some unplanned leave. But work has continued on various fronts, and plans/arrangements remain underway for…

We had a new item of rolling stock on test at Beamish last week, in the shape of a new-build Stockton & Darlington Railway chaldron…

There is lots to report in this post, across a variety of areas of the team’s activity. There should be more to report next week…

I realise that July is upon us and that I have not done the customary summary of 2022, let alone the look ahead to 2023…

I’ve covered recent progress on Dunrobin’s restoration/overhaul in numerous posts, but being aware of the very specific interest in this locomotive, thought a summary of…

Firstly, an apology for the long gap since the last blog post – I’ve been away and also dealing with some family matters, so haven’t…

Thank you all of those who have responded regarding the future direction of this blog. For now, at least, and probably for the foreseeable future,…

After a few weeks away, the regular T&I update returns with this post, the tenth news update of the year. Puffing Billy returns to steam…

This post covers quite a few aspects of the transport activity at the museum, as I haven’t posted for a little while and there is…
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