For this post we take a look at a past-resident of the museum, one of the two repatriated Durham County Water Board locomotives that had…
There is quite a bit to report this week, as we’ve had both a number of challenges operationally, and also seen some milestones achieved in…
Blog coverage has been a little disrupted this last fortnight, but plenty is going on, and for some of it I took photographs to illustrate…
Warden Law Engine This year (2022) marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Hetton Railway in Co Durham – a significant occasion in…
This post is a bit of a sweeping up of lose ends exercise, with various bits of news to report. We also had updated figures…
Well, that was quite a weekend!!! The first Beamish Steam Gala format event was blessed with decent weather, superb exhibits and a very good visitor…
This week, as alluded to in the previous post, has been around preparation for the Steam Gala. On Thursday, some of the heavy haulage exhibits…
This week is, as would be expected, all about preparing for the Beamish Steam Gala this coming weekend. The first exhibits arrived on Monday, with…
This post sweeps up a few different themes, that reflect recent progress and look ahead to the forthcoming Beamish Steam Gala… As a result, there…
This week we have a miscellaneous round-up of transport and engineering news. As readers will no doubt know, the big news has been the opening…
Planning for the April Steam Gala continues, and we are now in a position to announce some more exhibits. All the way back in 2017…
In various posts in the recent past I have alluded to our review of all things operational and events. We are now finalising our events…
In this report we take a look specifically at the ongoing restoration of ex Dundee Gas Works Kerr Stuart 0-4-0WT No.721. This project is largely…
Here are some more images and a film of No.18’s last day in steam yesterday – David Watchman filmed these for our social media platforms,…
Happy New Year and welcome to a the first blog post of 2022 (if we exclude the review of 2021, which was started last year…
As has become the annual tradition, I thought a review of the year was timely, and like 2020’s article, it has the inevitable cloud of…
The blog resumes following a short hibernation (as I was on paternity leave!) with an update covering the period I was off. Matt kept notes…
Last weekend, we had No.18 and No.1370 in steam in the late afternoon in readiness for darkness, when Andy Martin was visiting us in order…
This week there is quite a lot to report, so I will probably spill some of the image-based content into separate posts next week. Meanwhile,…
Looking at all of the news coverage this week, it certainly feels we’re hitting our stride again, with work very near pre-pandemic levels once again. …
I wasn’t able to take many photographs during the steam (and other transport) gala last weekend, but the ones that I did manage were blessed…
This weeks post inevitably focusses on the forthcoming transport activities this weekend, but I’ve also included a video that I am sure readers will enjoy. …
The weeks following the summer holidays often remain busy and that has been no exception this year. Whilst behind the scenes, work has progressed along…
This week’s post reflects the ongoing efforts to ready the tramway for operation, as well as a few other operations odds and ends that I…
We have a colourful variety of news items this week, starting with the Waggonway and then covering engineering and buses. We’ve had some rain this…
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