The schools have gone back and we are now contemplating operations under the new ‘normal’ outside of the school holiday period. The weather has been…
The summer holidays are now drawing to a close and with school children anticipated to return to school next week, this weekend (a bank holiday…
There has been very little to report on the transport blog lately (for obvious reasons), meanwhile the operation of the museum in these new and…
This is the twentieth post since we closed in March, so I thougth I would start with thanking everyone who contributed to the blog during…
The blog has been a little quiet lately, but this has been due to the extensive behind the scenes preparations ahead of the announcement (and…
Beamish has a long association with the railway preservation phenomenon of ‘new builds’ – the term used to describe replicas or recreations of locomotives that…
Following the success of the series on the museum’s cycle collection, we now have another guest author appearance from two Friends of Beamish engineering volunteers…
The last week or so have been particularly busy at work, so the blog’s rate of updates has suffered accordingly! The planning and preparation for…
The Beamish Cycle Collection – Part 4 More Than Two Wheels and/or Seats by Ian Bean As you will have seen in parts 1, 2…
At this time, with the museum closed, there is very little news to report. However, there are various queries that have arrived, or observations that…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 3 The Safeties by Ian Bean This instalment looks at the development of the Safety, with specific reference to some…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 2 The High Bicycles by Ian Bean We saw in part 1 how the velocipede had started to develop to…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 1 The Wooden Wheeled Machines by Ian Bean The important and diverse collection of cycles at Beamish has not received…
I regularly search online for negatives or prints relating to the transport collections at Beamish. Seaham Harbour is a particular favourite and over the years…
Street maintenance implements *Updated 29th April 2020* In this post I’m taking a look at a theme that began to develop ten or so years…
Updated 22/04/20 In order to generate some content for the blog, I thought I’d take a look at the things I have been meaning to…
Following on from the previous post, we now move on to April 2010, ten years ago and with preparations underway for the Power from the…
Whilst we are not generating any news at the moment, certainly in terms of blog content, I thought it would be interesting to look back…
The new season is looming with alarming speed and all around the workshops the staff and volunteers are busy preparing the fleet for 2020 and…
Welcome to Beamish Transport Online 2020 – Happy New Year and here we go with the eleventh year of the transport blog covering the operational…
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