The weeks are becoming busier as the teams get into their stride with the backlog of maintenance jobs accrued over the last year or so. …
We are delighted to announce that the Association for Industrial Archaeology has made an award of £15,080 towards the £16,756 cost of restoring a 1927…
There are usually, with most projects at the museum, a raft of talented craftspeople working on discreet elements of the final exhibit, bringing their own…
There has been plenty going on this week, so it is nice to compile a detailed blog post recording some of the activity. I tend…
In June 2014, we announced the purchase of our next accessible bus, know more correctly described as a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (as it is often…
We’ve reached the summer half term holiday, including a Bank Holiday Monday within it, and the museum has certainly become much busier. We had targetted…
A short post this time, as much of the progress made is a continuation of work seen previously, including Gateshead 10, whose engineering challenges are…
We’ve had quite a bit to report recently, so hopefully readers are enjoying a certain revitalisation of the blog news as a result?! General news…
Our 1903-built North Eastern Railway Luggage Composite coach, No.818 is moving to Kirby Stephen East (home of the Stainmore Railway Company) for an 18 month…
It seems, to me at least, incredible that it is now ten years (this week) since Dunrobin arrived in the UK, following its long overland…
Monday 17th May marked the beginning of Step 3 in the Government roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions. As part of this, we are now able…
There is quite a bit of news this week, so I’ll break it down into a sequence of posts, starting with a quick look at…
After all the excitement of holding a mini-event last week, here is a post to sweep up a few other developments and to display a…
Today we held our first transport event since 2019, tied in with the international Twitter Steam Rally (Matt explains what this is in the video…
Over the last two days of this week (Thursday and Friday), Peckett 1370 was prepared for relocation from Rowley Station to the Colliery Railway. Built…
This post is a reminder that our first steam ‘event’ since 2019 is due to take place this Saturday, with weekend and holiday operation on…
Last week Beamish reopened, though not without a few dramas along the way (as might be expected when waking any site from a period of…
Hello and welcome to the blog. The clocks have changed, we’re enjoying some warm, sunny weather, and we look forward to the first stage of…
T&I News 4 marked a notable step change in activity online and on site. This post follows the trend, reporting on the steam tests carried…
It has been some time since I compiled a general news roundup, so here is something to redress that. In terms of transport operation in…
Coffee Pot 2010 to the present – and its 150th anniversary Welcome to Part 3 of this series looking at the history, restoration and ongoing…
Coffee Pot – Restoration to working order, 2008 – 2010 Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part history of Head Wrightson Coffee Pot No.1, which…
Part 1: Coffee Pot No.1 1871 – 2004 2021 sees the 150th birthday of one of my favourite artefacts at the museum – Head Wrightson…
I should start with an apology – it has been quite a length of time since the last post on the blog – largely as…
Here is a news-worthy post on here for a change! A new addition to the vehicle collection… Murton Colliery Cooperative Society Mobile Shop Around two…
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