Steam Tram Locomotive visits Beamish

Steam Tram Locomotive visits Beamish

In connection with an event in July, we’ve brought in another visiting locomotive. A Collier’s Life: At Work & Play This is in the form…

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Festival of Transport 2025 Part 2

Festival of Transport 2025 Part 2

Here is a second gallery of images taken over the last few days, showing (primarily) the narrow gauge operation, which featured visiting locomotives Velinheli and…

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Festival of Transport 2025 Part 1

Festival of Transport 2025 Part 1

As part of the event coverage, here are some images taken on the Sat/Sun/Tues/Wed of the Festival of Transport (the second half will be covered…

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Beamish Museum - 1983

Beamish Museum – 1983

There has been quite a lot of discussion on social media platforms with regard to the railway at Beamish and the route it once took…

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Transport & Engineering Diary May 2025 part 2

Transport & Engineering Diary May 2025 part 2

A shorter diary update this time, as there are several other posts appearing over the course of the next week or so. Darlington 4 Below:…

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Festival of Transport - what to expect and a last-minute change

Festival of Transport – what to expect and a last-minute change

This post is a bit of an update on activities here ahead of re-starting the passenger trains at Rowley Station and welcoming several visiting muses…

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Transport & Engineering Diary May 2025 Part 1

Transport & Engineering Diary May 2025 Part 1

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…

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Railway 200 at Beamish 2025 - The Railway Attractions

Railway 200 at Beamish 2025 – The Railway Attractions

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…

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Reviving the Armstrong Whitworth Part 3

Reviving the Armstrong Whitworth Part 3

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…

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Sir Berkeley to make a return visit

Sir Berkeley to make a return visit

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)…

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Workshop Diary March 2025 Part 1

Workshop Diary March 2025 Part 1

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…

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Beamish Festival of Transport May 2025

Beamish Festival of Transport May 2025

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,…

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Workshop diary: Sunderland Corporation 13

Workshop diary: Sunderland Corporation 13

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…

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Workshop Diary SCT No.2: January Update

Workshop Diary SCT No.2: January Update

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…

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Workshop Diary January 2025

Workshop Diary January 2025

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…

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