As readers will know, Dunrobin’s restoration is being undertaken at the Severn Valley Railway’s engineering works at Bridgnorth, where exciting progress is being made towards…
May is going to be another busy month! The notable occurrences are the re-commencement of operation at Rowley Station (24th May), and the Festival of…
As we approach the Festival of Transport, a host of buses, road vehicles, road steam engines and railway locomotives are lined up to appear over…
It is now five years since the last passenger operations at Rowley Station, during February half-term 2020 and featuring Peckett 0-6-0ST No.2000. Not long afterwards…
This second instalment of April’s Workshop Diary contains some new threads, covering development work associated with Oporto 196, further signage developments and progress reports on…
It is surprising (or maybe not!) just how quickly we get to Easter each year – traditionally the focal point for completing the winter maintenance…
For the final post of the three Workshop Diaries this month, we catch up on a few of the jobs not covered in detail elsewhere… …
The revival of the Armstrong Whitworth has caused a great deal of interest at Beamish and readers may well have seen it appear on the…
We continue our look at the restoration/maintenance activity around the transport collections in this second part of two (maybe even three!) posts for March 2025… …
After being a little obscure about the potential identity of our next visiting locomotive, I can now confirm (as one or two of you guessed)…
This month there is so much content available that we’ll split the workshop diary into two posts – this being the first of those, and…
The ongoing work to revive the 1906 Armstrong Whitworth open tourer continues. With the garage shuffle to release it from the showroom complete, it has…
One of the museum’s star exhibits within the road transport collection is our 1906 Armstrong Whitworth open tourer. For many years this has been on…
After mentioning that there would be a change to our event format for 2025 (see the post below), I can now confirm our 2025 programme,…
We are approaching the end of the month of February, and already there seems to be a lot that has taken place this year! When…
Some years ago I was introduced to two fire engines that were stored in the fire station at Tynemouth. Over subsequent years (probably over a…
I thought that readers might appreciate a little insight into some of the day to day challenges of maintaining a historic fleet of buses. Sunderland…
The conservation/restoration project being applied to Sunderland Corporation bus No.2 (a 1929 Leyland Lion LT1) continues. Whilst most of the attention is to the saloon…
Welcome to the transport blog and the beginning of our 2025 content… A slightly shorter post this time as I’m keeping some material for separate…
In a change of author, while Paul takes a few days off, I though it was time for a general site maintenance update. It has…
It has become customary on this blog to look back at the past year, and also look ahead to some of the projects and developments…
This post has been some years in the making – very much on the to-do list, but then overtaken by other things. So, finally, here…
It was inevitable that as soon as I published the December update, there would be more news for the blog, that ideally fits into any…
This month’s Workshop Diary is appearing a little earlier, as there are some posts earmarked for the festive period and I didn’t want to crowd…
Welcome to another Workshop Diary – the last month has flown by, and so this report covers something of the end of the high-season, whilst…
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