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…
This week has certainly been a warm one! Looking at some of the track on site, we’ve had a fair bit of distortion in the…
We’ve a strong engineering bias to this week’s post. Matt has been taking detailed photographs of various processes that are often referred to but not…
We roll onwards towards the summer, with various jobs receiving attention. The priority is to commission Crosville 716, complete the repairs to Puffing Billy and…
There has been plenty going on this week, so it is nice to compile a detailed blog post recording some of the activity. I tend…
We’ve reached the summer half term holiday, including a Bank Holiday Monday within it, and the museum has certainly become much busier. We had targetted…
A short post this time, as much of the progress made is a continuation of work seen previously, including Gateshead 10, whose engineering challenges are…
We’ve had quite a bit to report recently, so hopefully readers are enjoying a certain revitalisation of the blog news as a result?! General news…
It seems, to me at least, incredible that it is now ten years (this week) since Dunrobin arrived in the UK, following its long overland…
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…
Today we held our first transport event since 2019, tied in with the international Twitter Steam Rally (Matt explains what this is in the video…
Over the last two days of this week (Thursday and Friday), Peckett 1370 was prepared for relocation from Rowley Station to the Colliery Railway. Built…
This post is a reminder that our first steam ‘event’ since 2019 is due to take place this Saturday, with weekend and holiday operation on…
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…
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