Here is a short update this week, to keep news posts ticking along… Engineering Below: The two portable ‘pits have arrived from North Bay Railway…
Well, that was quite a weekend!!! The first Beamish Steam Gala format event was blessed with decent weather, superb exhibits and a very good visitor…
This post sweeps up a few different themes, that reflect recent progress and look ahead to the forthcoming Beamish Steam Gala… As a result, there…
After a bit of a gap, the news returns… We’ve been very busy across the museum, in all departments. It is also the time of…
This week has been half-term at the museum, so we have been open every day and welcoming a steady stream of visitors – many coming…
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. …
The weeks following the summer holidays often remain busy and that has been no exception this year. Whilst behind the scenes, work has progressed along…
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’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…
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…
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…
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…
Part 1: Coffee Pot No.1 1871 – 2004 2021 sees the 150th birthday of one of my favourite artefacts at the museum – Head Wrightson…
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…
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…
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