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Workshop Diary April 2025 Part 2

Workshop Diary April 2025 Part 2

May 1, 2025
Paul Jarman
Dunrobin, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, News, Steam Locomotives, Tram Restorations, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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Another regional bus joins the collection

Another regional bus joins the collection

November 28, 2024
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, News, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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Workshop Diary October 2024 Part 2

Workshop Diary October 2024 Part 2

October 29, 2024
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, Collections, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, News, RHEC, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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T&I News 11 2023...

T&I News 11 2023…

May 27, 2023
Paul Jarman
Dunrobin, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, News, Steam Locomotives, Vintage & Veteran

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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Sunderland Corporation Leyland Lion Bus No.2

Sunderland Corporation Leyland Lion Bus No.2

January 11, 2023
Paul Jarman
Collections, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, News, Vintage & Veteran

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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T&I News 23 2022...

T&I News 23 2022…

October 10, 2022
Paul Jarman
Bus Shelter Restoration, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, News, Tram Restorations, Vintage & Veteran

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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T&I News 22 2022...

T&I News 22 2022…

October 4, 2022
Paul Jarman
Bus Shelter Restoration, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, News, Tram Restorations

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…

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T&I News 12 2022...

T&I News 12 2022…

June 2, 2022
Paul Jarman
Collections, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, News, Vintage & Veteran

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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T&I News 32 2021...

T&I News 32 2021…

October 23, 2021
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, Colliery, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, Narrow Gauge Railway, News, Steam Locomotives, Tram Restorations

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,…

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T&I News 31 2021...

T&I News 31 2021…

October 7, 2021
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, Engineering, Industrial Archaeology, News, Steam Locomotives, Tram Restorations, Vintage & Veteran

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. …

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T&I News 30 2021...

T&I News 30 2021…

September 29, 2021
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, Bus Shelter Restoration, Engineering, News, Tram Restorations, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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T&I News 22 2021...

T&I News 22 2021…

July 24, 2021
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, Colliery, Industrial Archaeology, Narrow Gauge Railway, News, RHEC, Steam Locomotives, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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T&I News 18 2021...

T&I News 18 2021…

June 25, 2021
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, Colliery, Narrow Gauge Railway, News, RHEC, Steam Locomotives, Tram Restorations

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…

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Darlington Corporation Bus Shelter Restoration - Part 1

Darlington Corporation Bus Shelter Restoration – Part 1

June 16, 2021
Paul Jarman
Bus Shelter Restoration, Industrial Archaeology, News

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…

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T&I News 15 2021...

T&I News 15 2021…

June 2, 2021
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, Colliery, News, Steam Locomotives, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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T&I News 11 2021 - Return of the buses...

T&I News 11 2021 – Return of the buses…

May 18, 2021
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, News, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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Beamish Transport Online: Review of 2020

Beamish Transport Online: Review of 2020

December 30, 2020
Paul Jarman
News

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…

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T&I News 23 2020...

T&I News 23 2020…

November 5, 2020
Paul Jarman
News, RHEC, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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T&I News 22 2020...

T&I News 22 2020…

October 30, 2020
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations, News, RHEC, Vintage & Veteran

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…

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T&I News 17...

T&I News 17…

September 28, 2020
Paul Jarman
News, Vintage & Veteran

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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Motor Buses at Beamish Museum...

Motor Buses at Beamish Museum…

April 21, 2020
Paul Jarman
Bus Restorations

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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