We have recently acquired this Barford & Perkins semi-tandem motor roller from Tweedmouth near Berwick. It carries the works number R025, which I think dates it to…
This morning an RAF Sea King helicopter arrived at Beamish, making a number of dramatic passes for the crowd before landing on the events field and…
Some more documents have been added to the downloads section. Some are in PDF form, whilst others, such as the maps, are viewable via the…
I often refer to the team of folks who form the Transport & Industry team, including the Buildings & Site Support, Track & Plant and…
It has been a busy few weeks and so the blog has suffered a little in terms of updates. However, as well as some news…
As part of the reasearch that is being conducted into the future expansion, viability and direction of the transport system at Beamish I have been…
Below: Darren and Mark, assisted by Jonathan and Jack, have started their winter maintenance work on the railway line at Rowley. This includes replacement of…
Here are some of Andy Martin’s fantastic night images from the Jason Cross/David Williams photo charter. There are more to follow, which I will add…
Yesterday (like today appears to be promising) was generally bright and sunny, or at least not raining! A number of additional transport attractions were at work,…
Here is a reminder that this weekend is the last of this year’s enhanced transport events, where we use the first full weekend of the…
We recently had the opportunity to acquire the remains of Manning Wardle No.254 built in 1868. The locomotive, once named Newcastle, had worked at Silverdale Colliery…
Below: Despite some quite heavy snow showers last night and this morning, the sun shone for most of the day and Blackpool 304 joined 101,…
Following some remedial work and further testing, Blackpool Coronation 304 will be placed into service this weekend and we shall endeavour to make available for…
Below: After much hard work by Brian, Hughie, Tom, Peter and David (from the LTT), commissioning and static testing, 304 ventured out onto the circuit…
Below: G&I 26 now has working replica roof mounted headlights, in readiness for several forthcoming winter evening events as well as a photo charter. The…
Below: Here are two views showing that Dave Young has been as busy as ever! He is currently engaged in some development work with me…
Its been a while since I put a news roundup on the blog, and I feel I have neglected it slightly in recent weeks on…
As has been shown on this blog on numerous occasions before, I am a great fan of the Welsh narrow gauge railways, in particular the…
On Friday the much anticiapted arrival of Blackpool Coronation tram No.304 took place. The tram was swiftly unloaded and placed inside the depot (which it…
I’ve had numerous comments regarding the format of photographs when opened from the blog. This may be due to the screen size used to view…
On Saturday the Museum hosted a reunion for staff from the Dene motorcycle works in Newcastle. Latterly a dealer, in its early years it built…
Here is a further selection of scenes taken today whilst we displayed, in action, some additional transport and industry based artifacts. Over the weekend we…
Today we enjoyed a number of additional transport attractions in action around the Museum, including Coffee Pot No.1, Mary Margaret (Marshall traction engine), the SOS…
This evening we took delivery of the Quarry Hunslet ‘Edward Sholto’ – it is anticipated that the locomotive will be in action this coming weekend…
Hello and welcome to the blog, now hosted on Word press and hopefully with much clearer access to a wider range of information relating to…
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