This week’s post includes some nice milestones – including the start of testing on the Foulbridge – Town section of the Tramway. There is quite…
For the first time in some months we have a post that doesn’t feature buses! The visit of Glyder’s owner, alongside the arrival back at…
There is, it has been pointed out, a danger of this blog becoming the Beamish Bus Blog – somewhat inevitable, perhaps, given the only transport…
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…
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…
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…
A Rolling Restoration – Restoring Barford & Perkins Airfield Roller R025… Beamish has a long track-record of restoring mechanical objects, not least those that have…
Hodbarrow Side Tipping Waggon With the aim of finding some things to talk about during what is likely to be a slow spring for us…
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…
As usual, here is a bit of a roundup of news from the transport and engineering team… I’ve also included some words from Andrew Neale,…
Having featured buses quite extensively in recent weeks, we return, in this post, to matters of steam, with some updates on locomotive projects underway at…
Bus Depot The depot is now more or less complete and on Friday 22nd it was formally opened by guests from Go North-East, The Reece…
In this post we inevitably focus on the completion of the bus depot, which has now been officially handed over to the Museum (ahead of…
Another busy couple of weeks have flown by, so here are some news items to keep abreast of work taking place within the transport department…
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