This post has been in gestation for several months, as a suitable point to post it was awaited. New material was added to the post…
We close the month with some images of Glyder in Cumbria, and an update on the Armstrong Whitworth car, which is now in the ‘keep…
This coming weekend we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the formal rededication and reopening of Rowley Station at Beamish Museum. It is my intention to…
We start another busy month, with July’s weather encouraging visitors to the museum, where often rather challenging temperatures have had to be endured by the…
Well, this has been quite a project! Originally envisaged to be completed three years ago as part of the Remaking Beamish scheme, it struggled to…
The latter half of June saw further progress made on previously reported work streams and projects, despite some stifling temperatures in the workshops (and even…
I am painfully conscious that I still haven’t migrated these posts onto the museum’s main news pages – but as I write them across a…
The 2026 Festival of Transport, which included Fares Please! and Power from the Past has now been and gone. We were very lucky with the…
Here are a few images taken during the event’s Saturday and Sunday days (it also runs to Monday). The use of the 1950s area is…
It’s well past mid-May and with a busy latter half of the month anticipated, here is an update for the first half of the month,…
Well, the best laid plans… I’ve still not managed to find time over the busy Easter period to learn how to post on the new…
Good news – the very popular visit by GER 229 is set to be repeated later this year. The locomotive will leave Beamish after it…
On Good Friday, West Hartlepool 36 (a 1942-built Leyland Titan TD7 fitted with Roe H48C bodywork) entered passenger service at Beamish following its recent change…
Operation on ‘The North Eastern Branch’ at Rowley Station this Easter commences on Good Friday, April 3rd. The motive power hired for the fortnight includes…
At last the long wet days of winter seem behind us, with some good weather and corresponding good progress on numerous projects outside, and the…
February has been and gone, with half-term stretching to two weeks this year to cover the misalignment of dates for school holidays that have occurred…
I thought reporting of progress on the two Armstrong Whitworth projects deserved their own post – partly as it may make them easier to find…
The third post from January, looking at the Armstrong Whitworth car and stationary engine, is on-hold for a week or so whilst some more content…
With plenty of content by mid-January, there will be enough material to have three posts this month, covering something of the variety of workshop and…
Welcome to the first post on Beamish Transport Online of 2026 – Happy New Year! As forecast in the review of 2025, there will be…
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