The 27th September is an important day in the calendar for railway history, being 200 years, to the day, since the opening of the Stockton…
After the triumph of seeing the SHEW car in operation, for the first in generations, a number of tasks have been attended to in order…
In the programme of vehicle conservation and restoration, a number of key dates have been identified as being of significance to certain vehicles within the…
We round off July’s diary updates with more progress on Gateshead 10 and an exciting development on the Daimler CC lorry. Gateshead 10 has received…
After a period of commissioning, cosmetic attention and a re-upholstering, former Weardale Motor Services Leyland Titan PD2/1 KPT 909 has now been signed off for…
There is just the one post this month – there was plenty to report in May, and June has been a process of putting the…
Here is a second gallery of images taken over the last few days, showing (primarily) the narrow gauge operation, which featured visiting locomotives Velinheli and…
This second instalment of April’s Workshop Diary contains some new threads, covering development work associated with Oporto 196, further signage developments and progress reports on…
It is surprising (or maybe not!) just how quickly we get to Easter each year – traditionally the focal point for completing the winter maintenance…
We continue our look at the restoration/maintenance activity around the transport collections in this second part of two (maybe even three!) posts for March 2025… …
This month there is so much content available that we’ll split the workshop diary into two posts – this being the first of those, and…
The ongoing work to revive the 1906 Armstrong Whitworth open tourer continues. With the garage shuffle to release it from the showroom complete, it has…
After mentioning that there would be a change to our event format for 2025 (see the post below), I can now confirm our 2025 programme,…
We are approaching the end of the month of February, and already there seems to be a lot that has taken place this year! When…
Some years ago I was introduced to two fire engines that were stored in the fire station at Tynemouth. Over subsequent years (probably over a…
I thought that readers might appreciate a little insight into some of the day to day challenges of maintaining a historic fleet of buses. Sunderland…
The conservation/restoration project being applied to Sunderland Corporation bus No.2 (a 1929 Leyland Lion LT1) continues. Whilst most of the attention is to the saloon…
Welcome to the transport blog and the beginning of our 2025 content… A slightly shorter post this time as I’m keeping some material for separate…
It has become customary on this blog to look back at the past year, and also look ahead to some of the projects and developments…
It was inevitable that as soon as I published the December update, there would be more news for the blog, that ideally fits into any…
This month’s Workshop Diary is appearing a little earlier, as there are some posts earmarked for the festive period and I didn’t want to crowd…
Welcome to another Workshop Diary – the last month has flown by, and so this report covers something of the end of the high-season, whilst…
The expansion of the museum’s bus fleet continues; the latest bus to join the collection being Leyland Titan PD2/1 KPT 909. Built in 1949, the…
As suggested in the last post, there is a second part to October’s Workshop Diary. There are a number of other posts in preparation, and…
We might just squeeze another report into October, but as this post was getting longer and longer, it seemed prudent to publish and show some…
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