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,…
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…
Here is the annual summary of tramcar mileages, which are a popular feature on the blog. The tramway has seen another busy season with 25,250…
Welcome to Beamish Transport Online 2020 – Happy New Year and here we go with the eleventh year of the transport blog covering the operational…
As has become something of a tradition, here is a review of the last 12 months (which make up a year that has absolutely flown…
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…
It has been a very busy few weeks, so here is a roundup of what has been taking place within the transport team at the…
In this post we see a number of locomotive movements that took place today, Thursday 12th September… Below: Peckett 2000, acting as shunter, draws Peckett…
The cover photo above shows what a difference it makes to the site when we reach the end of the school summer holidays! A quieter…
I start with an apology – this post will feature Samson, a lot! There has been a comment regarding the railway-heavy content on this blog. …
The annual gala weekend on the narrow gauge (two-foot) railway at Threlkeld Quarry near Keswick in Cumbria has been reported on several times on the…
Not too much to report this week, so instead some pretty photographs will have to do! There is news on Dunrobin, which is never far…
A short post this week – time having run away from us for a lengthier report! Bus Depot Below: David Watchman took these photos for…
Readers will have noted in previous posts that we are in the process of recruiting a member of the team, following the departure of our…
I thought a quick post showing some views of the Old King Coal event over the weekend might be of interest to readers… First of…
There has been plenty to report on the blog lately – and this week is no different! Anyone able to visit this coming weekend can…
It’s been a busy week so far… We have seen the return to steam of Glyder, No.18’s trip to Tanfield and the arrival of 813…
Back in March 2012 the blog carried the news that Beamish would display two former Durham County Water Board two-foot gauge steam locomotives, named Ogwen…
Its been a wet week at Beamish! This hasn’t hampered any of the activities, but it has made it unpleasant at times – not least…
This week we have another eclectic mixture of projects, all of which have been progressing within the Regional Heritage Engineering Centre (RHEC) or which will…
This morning Rotherham 220 and Darlington 4 were posed in the Town street for photographs to be taken for future publicity material use. This obviously…
The blog recently recorded that we presently have the rather grand total of seven trams available for service! To note this occasion, Matt Ellis and…
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