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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
A quick catch up featuring last week’s work, and a little bit of this week too, with developments on various familiar fronts progressing well. Buses…
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…
This week there is quite a lot to report, so I will probably spill some of the image-based content into separate posts next week. Meanwhile,…
Looking at all of the news coverage this week, it certainly feels we’re hitting our stride again, with work very near pre-pandemic levels once again. …
After the excitement of the Autumn Steam Gala, Monday brought another event, of sorts, with the Omnibus Society attending the museum as part of their…
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 roll onwards towards the summer, with various jobs receiving attention. The priority is to commission Crosville 716, complete the repairs to Puffing Billy and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Motor Buses at Beamish Museum In 1987 Beamish introduced its first dedicated bus service for visitors to the Museum’s extensive site, connecting Pit Hill…
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