17th September 2009

Last weekend saw the Tanfield Railway gala, which appeared to be a very successful event. Star guests were the Port of Par Bagnalls from the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall. There were passenger trains, mixed trains and a coal train. The event also saw Beamish’s NER bogie carriage enter service.

Below: Renishaw No.6 in the engine shed on the Friday night photographic session/

Below: The vintage workshop, featuring a vertical boiler driving a vertical single cylinder stationary steam engine.

Below: The outlines of Twizell and Burrell road engine ‘President’.

Below: The two Bagnalls, Alfred and Judy, outside the five road shed at Marley Hill.

Below: The Sentinel Steam Bus operated a service between Andrews House and East Tanfield.

Below: Two views of Twizell, now only weeks away from re-entering traffic.

Below: The two Bagnall’s at Andrews House.

Below: The two Bagnalls again, this time preparing to depart from the bay platform at East Tanfield.

Below: Renishaw No.6 on the train which included Beamish’s bogie carriage as well as the two four wheelers that came to Beamish last year.

Below: A selection of views of the coach (numbered, incorrectly, 818 – it is in fact 3071) at Andrews House station. One side has faired better – the exposed south side at Beamish being faded and in need of attention. The other side (against the platform in the scene below) is in much condition.