As trams continue to be tested on a limited section of the tramway, and the permanent way team work on inspections/maintenance work on other sections…
This week saw an important event take place, albeit in the hours before the museum opened on Tuesday; namely the first tramcar movement (outside of…
I haven’t managed to take as many photographs this week – the site being generally very busy with visitors (which is good!) and the back-of-house…
We have a colourful variety of news items this week, starting with the Waggonway and then covering engineering and buses. We’ve had some rain this…
This week has certainly been a warm one! Looking at some of the track on site, we’ve had a fair bit of distortion in the…
We’re back to looking at some of the engineering taking place behind the scenes this week, starting with the fabrication shop and moving onto the…
In this post we look at some non-engineering activities that have been underway over the last week or so… Work is still underway to look…
We’ve a strong engineering bias to this week’s post. Matt has been taking detailed photographs of various processes that are often referred to but not…
We roll onwards towards the summer, with various jobs receiving attention. The priority is to commission Crosville 716, complete the repairs to Puffing Billy and…
Below: A few years ago we were put in contact with a member of staff working at Foxton Locks (owned and operated by the Canal…
The weeks are becoming busier as the teams get into their stride with the backlog of maintenance jobs accrued over the last year or so. …
We are delighted to announce that the Association for Industrial Archaeology has made an award of £15,080 towards the £16,756 cost of restoring a 1927…
There are usually, with most projects at the museum, a raft of talented craftspeople working on discreet elements of the final exhibit, bringing their own…
There has been plenty going on this week, so it is nice to compile a detailed blog post recording some of the activity. I tend…
In June 2014, we announced the purchase of our next accessible bus, know more correctly described as a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (as it is often…
We’ve reached the summer half term holiday, including a Bank Holiday Monday within it, and the museum has certainly become much busier. We had targetted…
A short post this time, as much of the progress made is a continuation of work seen previously, including Gateshead 10, whose engineering challenges are…
We’ve had quite a bit to report recently, so hopefully readers are enjoying a certain revitalisation of the blog news as a result?! General news…
Our 1903-built North Eastern Railway Luggage Composite coach, No.818 is moving to Kirby Stephen East (home of the Stainmore Railway Company) for an 18 month…
It seems, to me at least, incredible that it is now ten years (this week) since Dunrobin arrived in the UK, following its long overland…
Monday 17th May marked the beginning of Step 3 in the Government roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions. As part of this, we are now able…
There is quite a bit of news this week, so I’ll break it down into a sequence of posts, starting with a quick look at…
After all the excitement of holding a mini-event last week, here is a post to sweep up a few other developments and to display a…
Today we held our first transport event since 2019, tied in with the international Twitter Steam Rally (Matt explains what this is in the video…
Over the last two days of this week (Thursday and Friday), Peckett 1370 was prepared for relocation from Rowley Station to the Colliery Railway. Built…
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