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Last weekend we held our second Fares Please! transport event. Once again the focus was inevitably on buses, though Lisbon 730 was on display outside…
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There is lots to report this month. It is also worth noting that we had to cancel the rest of Sir Berkeley’s steaming dates here,…
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It has been a while since I sat at the keyboard to write a blog post! A combination of things have conspired to reduce the…
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We had a new item of rolling stock on test at Beamish last week, in the shape of a new-build Stockton & Darlington Railway chaldron…
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I realise that July is upon us and that I have not done the customary summary of 2022, let alone the look ahead to 2023…
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Thank you all of those who have responded regarding the future direction of this blog. For now, at least, and probably for the foreseeable future,…
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The Fares Please! event the weekend before last was a great success and operationally went very well indeed. Whilst the Monday weather deterred many, I’m…
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I thought I’d better have a post to note the recent Steam Gala and Easter weekend – both of which were extremely busy for the…
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Winter continues to bite, with recent snow and rain making ground conditions particularly soft, and the appeal of working outside is seemingly some months away…
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One of the aspirations of the current transport strategy at Beamish, is a focus on increasing the use and display of regionally appropriate vehicles wherever…
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A bit of a varied roundup today, to clear the decks and catch up with news from around the team… Trolleybuses Below: At the end…
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This first part of this week’s post focusses on the road transport – buses and trams, plus road signs! The focus of the engineering work…
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I realised I hadn’t posted this part-made post, so I’ve included it here for completeness, along with a lot of updates from the last few…
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There is quite a bit to report this week, as we’ve had both a number of challenges operationally, and also seen some milestones achieved in…
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Blog coverage has been a little disrupted this last fortnight, but plenty is going on, and for some of it I took photographs to illustrate…
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The team have had a busy week, not helped by a fairly widespread dose of COVID-19 resulting in several members having to isolate. Trams and…
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Work on the Darlington Corporation bus shelter has been on hold whilst we await the availability of our painter and a reasonable stint of good…
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This post is a bit of a sweeping up of lose ends exercise, with various bits of news to report. We also had updated figures…
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Well, that was quite a weekend!!! The first Beamish Steam Gala format event was blessed with decent weather, superb exhibits and a very good visitor…
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This week, as alluded to in the previous post, has been around preparation for the Steam Gala. On Thursday, some of the heavy haulage exhibits…
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This week is, as would be expected, all about preparing for the Beamish Steam Gala this coming weekend. The first exhibits arrived on Monday, with…
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This post sweeps up a few different themes, that reflect recent progress and look ahead to the forthcoming Beamish Steam Gala… As a result, there…
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After a bit of a gap, the news returns… We’ve been very busy across the museum, in all departments. It is also the time of…
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This week’s post includes some nice milestones – including the start of testing on the Foulbridge – Town section of the Tramway. There is quite…
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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…
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