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…
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