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:…
Professional photographer Dave Hewitt has once again sent through some of his superb images of the railway during the Great North Steam Fair… Many thanks…
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…
Month 2 and post 3! I had promised more information on Dunrobin’s restoration – so here it is, along with some other snippets of news…
Having promised to update the blog more frequently I find that I have failed to post more than once so far in 2018! Here we…
Hello and welcome to the blog in 2018… The close of 2017 saw rather fewer posts than had been the case previously – a combination…
I can only apologise for the recent paucity of blog posts – their absence does not reflect a lack of things happening, rather that we…
There has been a bit of an interruption to blog posts lately – the site is to be migrated to a new server and so…
Welcome back! After a few weeks break, posts are now resumed… Whilst I was enjoying a week in Wales, then at home and finally at…
Paul has been enjoying a few weeks away from the office so a different author for this post. The school holidays are still in full…
A shorter report this week, before a break for a couple of weeks… Plenty going on so there should be plenty to report in the next post…
More of the same this week, with a lot of progress on all fronts, as you will read below… Rowley Station Below: Rob, one of…
In a varied blog post, and my first for some time, I thought I would begin with a recent addition to the museum’s collection. Museum…
Where are the weeks going? I can’t believe it is late July now and the summer, so much anticipated, is now well underway (and raining!). …
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