A little while ago, we were contacted by the new owner of the Stanhopeburn mining site, which had closed (by then, for fluorspar extraction) in…
Today, the 1st October, marks the 70th anniversary of the closure of the Sunderland Corporation Tramway system. With Sunderland 16 emerging from our workshops after…
Welcome to the latest blog post and in particular, hello to new readers who are joining from the museum’s Facebook page. The blog has been…
Restoring Sunderland 16’s shine… Sunderland tram 16’s partial repaint started at the beginning of September, aimed at refreshening the appearance of the tram and also…
This post takes a different approach to the usual ‘workshop diary’ format of my posts on the blog. In the post below, I’ve attempted to…
I’m catching up with posts and news, after taking some leave in August and being away for work too. So after the post dedicated to…
Last week I made a trip to Bridgnorth for a catch-up session with the Severn Valley Railway Engineering Services team who are carrying out the…
The blog returns after a short break (as I was on annual leave), with a summary of work that has been taking place in the…
Last weekend we held our second Fares Please! transport event. Once again the focus was inevitably on buses, though Lisbon 730 was on display outside…
In this post we find trams at the centre of attention, with work progressing on Gateshead 10 and Lisbon 730, as well as some interim…
Welcome to the latest blog post, which is something of a mixture of report and thought – as you’ll see below. The workshops are busy,…
A shorter post this time – but one which hopefully satisfies those with an interest in what we get up to behind the scenes here……
There is lots to report this month. It is also worth noting that we had to cancel the rest of Sir Berkeley’s steaming dates here,…
I thought it useful to readers that this update was posted, following on from the last post here. Sir Berkeley developed a fault on Monday…
There has been a great deal of interest in the visit of Manning Wardle No.1210 Sir Berkeley to Beamish, and having promised further steamings, here…
Our first Wheels of Industry event has been and gone, with nearly 11,000 visitors over the two days, making it successful operationally and commercially. Despite…
The week has been dominated by the arrival of exhibits for Wheels of Industry this weekend, and preparing the various railway exhibits for operation. Here…
The blog celebrates fifteen years of existence this month – which is rather hard to believe, looking back! Some of the earlier posts were rather…
It would be fair to say that news of the 2024 events programme is landing a little late – the pressures of everything else that…
I think it is fair to say that the blog is becoming more of a monthly newsletter now – and certainly for the T&I posts,…
Welcome to 2024! I very much hope to increase the rate of posting this year, as it fell a little behind my own aspirations for…
Happy new year to all readers, and we start the year with an exciting piece of news regarding the tramway… Readers may have seen elsewhere…
This is the final post of the year – probably the year with fewest posts for some time now, but they have kept up with…
Once again it has been a while since the last blog post. Work has been progressing on various fronts, but the majority of the time…
This post has a little bit of variety, including work taking place both indoors and outdoors. We are still in a period of planning for…
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