This post is a reminder that our first steam ‘event’ since 2019 is due to take place this Saturday, with weekend and holiday operation on…
Last week Beamish reopened, though not without a few dramas along the way (as might be expected when waking any site from a period of…
Hello and welcome to the blog. The clocks have changed, we’re enjoying some warm, sunny weather, and we look forward to the first stage of…
T&I News 4 marked a notable step change in activity online and on site. This post follows the trend, reporting on the steam tests carried…
It has been some time since I compiled a general news roundup, so here is something to redress that. In terms of transport operation in…
Coffee Pot 2010 to the present – and its 150th anniversary Welcome to Part 3 of this series looking at the history, restoration and ongoing…
Coffee Pot – Restoration to working order, 2008 – 2010 Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part history of Head Wrightson Coffee Pot No.1, which…
Part 1: Coffee Pot No.1 1871 – 2004 2021 sees the 150th birthday of one of my favourite artefacts at the museum – Head Wrightson…
I should start with an apology – it has been quite a length of time since the last post on the blog – largely as…
Here is a news-worthy post on here for a change! A new addition to the vehicle collection… Murton Colliery Cooperative Society Mobile Shop Around two…
Happy new year and welcome to Beamish Transport Online! As readers will no doubt realised, news is a little thin on the ground at the…
Any review of 2020 is inevitably going to be dominated by a single subject, Cornavirus. In the interests of offering a change in diet for…
This will be the last general news post of 2020, with a review of the year to be posted next week. Depending on time, I…
We now reach December, and with the end of the national lockdown but in practice little to relish as the region enters a period of…
As material for the blog is a little in short supply at the moment, I thought that I would reflect upon one of our relatively…
It is hard to believe that it is mid-November already! I was writing up some notes for the next edition of the Beamish magazine (which…
Regular readers of the blog will no doubt be aware that wherever possible, I try to obtain (by donation or purchase) images of the collections…
In this post I’ve been asked by Matthew Henderson, the man behind many of the new products that are now available to purchase from our…
Well, no sooner had I said ‘staff returning from furlough’ the whole picture changed as the UK Government announced further restrictions, which brought about the…
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…
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