Apologies for the fairly lengthy gestation of this report – lots happening and a lot of work on Remaking Beamish to cover as well. Our…
The inevitable focus this week is on the arrival of Box 40 from Blackpool, and its subsequent commissioning prior to entering service at Beamish. I’ve…
Here we have another Great North Steam Fair announcement. Paul hinted in a previous post about some interesting consequences of creating the 15 inch gauge ash…
One of the next elements of the Remaking Beamish programme to be commenced is a new, purpose-designed, bus depot. The work on site has already…
A glance through the content of this post reveals just how varied the work is, and how much is going on, carried out largely by…
The announcement over the past few weeks of the two visiting tram cars has generated considerable excitement and interest. Whilst these announcements have been made a great…
Here is a joint announcement between Beamish Museum and the National Tramway Museum, that will be of interest to regular visitors and tramway enthusiasts alike….
A short post to announce the first confirmed exhibit for the Great North Steam Fair. Manchester 765 to visit Beamish Museum Beamish Museum and Heaton…
Welcome to the blog in 2019. Here we have the annual summary of tramcar mileages as well as an update of what is going on…
For this post we have an eclectic mix of projects from the workshops and out on site… Rowley Station Below: With the assistance of the…
A mixed assortment of news this week… Vehicles Below: Following the successful installation of the refurbished engine (with new, to this bus, block), the old…
This week’s post is more of an interim one as I haven’t been around the site as much during the week… Steam Operations Below: Rambler,…
A good deal of news from the machine shop this week… The Dandy coach is also progressing well, with varnishing and cosmetic detailing underway whilst…
This week we see progress on vehicles and rolling stock – the high mileages of the bus and tram fleet being particularly noticeable at this…
A shorter report this time – just to bring readers up to date on the items reported in post number 11… Rowley Station Below: The…
More news from the RHEC in this post… On site work continues to repaint the Colliery screens/winder house building. The school holidays have begun too…
Welcome back to the Beamish Transport Blog… As many of you will know, the original site suffered some issues recently, not least an amount of…
This posting is largely pictorial and includes a few random galleries relating to recent events etc. RHEC Below: The Model T team have stripped the…
As a change from steam fair photographs, here are a couple of news items relating to Rowley Station and its future operational developments… Dunrobin Below:…
Unlike previous years, I’ve not had a chance to add much about the steam fair this year – so here is a small gallery of…
With less than a week to go until the Great North (War) Steam Fair, Friday and Saturday have been spent preparing the Colliery area, largely…
With Easter only a matter of days away now, and the forthcoming Great North Steam Fair also on the very near horizon, a huge amount…
In response to a comment on a previous post, Paul mentioned that we have been looking at apprenticeships and skills succession. Some readers may have…
In the last blog post I promised to update with the Narrow Gauge motive power for the GNSF, once we had confirmation on what we…
It has been quite some time since a dedicated Narrow Gauge update so I thought I would do an update on the variety of work…





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