Today, the 1st October, marks the 70th anniversary of the closure of the Sunderland Corporation Tramway system. With Sunderland 16 emerging from our workshops after…
The Beamish Tramway has attained the remarkable feat of fifty years continuous service to the museum, nearly as many years as the region’s original electric…
This post marks a return to regular blog updates after some interruption in recent weeks – there has been a great-deal going on, which hasn’t…
NEXUS visit Beamish By Matthew Ellis, Keeper of Transport Through contacts set up with Les Brunton from the Beamish Tramway Group, on Monday 13th December…
This weeks post inevitably focusses on the forthcoming transport activities this weekend, but I’ve also included a video that I am sure readers will enjoy. …
This week saw an important event take place, albeit in the hours before the museum opened on Tuesday; namely the first tramcar movement (outside of…
We have a colourful variety of news items this week, starting with the Waggonway and then covering engineering and buses. We’ve had some rain this…
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…
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…
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