As members of staff return to work from their lengthy furlough, the workshops and technical teams are assessing the engineering and transport systems as we…
For the first time in some months we have a post that doesn’t feature buses! The visit of Glyder’s owner, alongside the arrival back at…
I hope readers will forgive another round of images featuring Crosville 716… We visited the bus today to view progress and discuss some of the…
Once again it has been a bit tricky finding news to report on this blog, as the transport situation remains static, with the two Daimlers…
There is, it has been pointed out, a danger of this blog becoming the Beamish Bus Blog – somewhat inevitable, perhaps, given the only transport…
The present level of opening, with many staff still furloughed, means that there is little change one day to the next in terms of transport…
The summer holidays are now drawing to a close and with school children anticipated to return to school next week, this weekend (a bank holiday…
There has been very little to report on the transport blog lately (for obvious reasons), meanwhile the operation of the museum in these new and…
This is the twentieth post since we closed in March, so I thougth I would start with thanking everyone who contributed to the blog during…
The blog has been a little quiet lately, but this has been due to the extensive behind the scenes preparations ahead of the announcement (and…
Beamish has a long association with the railway preservation phenomenon of ‘new builds’ – the term used to describe replicas or recreations of locomotives that…
The last week or so have been particularly busy at work, so the blog’s rate of updates has suffered accordingly! The planning and preparation for…
The Beamish Cycle Collection – Part 4 More Than Two Wheels and/or Seats by Ian Bean As you will have seen in parts 1, 2…
At this time, with the museum closed, there is very little news to report. However, there are various queries that have arrived, or observations that…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 3 The Safeties by Ian Bean This instalment looks at the development of the Safety, with specific reference to some…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 2 The High Bicycles by Ian Bean We saw in part 1 how the velocipede had started to develop to…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 1 The Wooden Wheeled Machines by Ian Bean The important and diverse collection of cycles at Beamish has not received…
I regularly search online for negatives or prints relating to the transport collections at Beamish. Seaham Harbour is a particular favourite and over the years…
A Rolling Restoration – Restoring Barford & Perkins Airfield Roller R025… Beamish has a long track-record of restoring mechanical objects, not least those that have…
Beamish is now well into the second month of lockdown, though as followers of the museum’s social media will read, a very small cohort of…
Hodbarrow Side Tipping Waggon With the aim of finding some things to talk about during what is likely to be a slow spring for us…
Updated 22/04/20 In order to generate some content for the blog, I thought I’d take a look at the things I have been meaning to…
Following on from the previous post, we now move on to April 2010, ten years ago and with preparations underway for the Power from the…
Whilst we are not generating any news at the moment, certainly in terms of blog content, I thought it would be interesting to look back…
Across the heritage sector we are seeing museums and heritage railways closing down their operations to the public (and in many cases, to staff and…
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