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…
A Rolling Restoration – Restoring Barford & Perkins Airfield Roller R025… Beamish has a long track-record of restoring mechanical objects, not least those that have…
Beamish is now well into the second month of lockdown, though as followers of the museum’s social media will read, a very small cohort of…
The Motor Buses at Beamish Museum In 1987 Beamish introduced its first dedicated bus service for visitors to the Museum’s extensive site, connecting Pit Hill…
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…
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…
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…
Across the heritage sector we are seeing museums and heritage railways closing down their operations to the public (and in many cases, to staff and…
We start with a statement from the museum: In response to Government guidance on coronavirus, the museum will be closed from 4pm on Friday, 20th…
We have a shorter post this week – progress on projects previously reported continuing apace, but which I haven’t had a chance to photograph! We…
There is something of a bus theme this week! However, to provide some balance, the steam locomotives are included, whose steam tests ahead of the…
Unbelievably, another February half-term is nearly over and we are enjoyed a fairly busy week at the museum, having largely escaped recent storms (other than…
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…
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