11th May 2011 Sometimes Curators go on holiday! And where better than mid Wales, where (just by chance!) there are a number of narrow gauge…
10th May 2011 From time to time new collections of photographs arrive at Beamish and are duly processed by Julian Harrop to be placed onto…
9th May 2011 Below: The second motor for Newcastle 114 has arrived and been fitted, as seen below. Below: Sunderland 16 coasts along the street…
9th May 2011 David Othen has posted this film of Dunrobin’s arrival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Youtube – the scale of it looks tiny…
9th May 2011 Lots has been going on over the last week – apologies for lack of postings lately. Below: A returnee to Beamish is…
29th April 2011 It’s that time of year when thoughts turn to holidays, then what to take to read on them. Whilst always trying to…
25th April 2011 All blog followers should have a look at the above link, posted by Andy Martin – it is superb!
21st April 2011 Andy Martin took this photograph yesterday and I thought I would include it here as it is such a nice scene! See…
21st April 2011 The repairs to Lewin’s frames are making good progress at Allen Engineering in Hetton. The distorted section has been removed and new…
21st April 2011 After the public photo session on the Saturday of the GNSF we held our own for Andy Martin to gather images for…
20th April 2011 More sunshine! So here are two views of Manchester 765 in the town street working on the outer circle (clockwise) duty. Below:…
20th April 2011 Neville Whaler, who was demonstrating in the Rowley Station signal box on Sunday, kindly sent these terrific views of his day at…
20th April 2011 Below: The Model Ts are seeing increasing use around the Museum and the van is seen here leaving the town on an…
20th April 2011 765 is enjoying some glorious weather as it operates in normal service (currently two and three trams per day) at Beamish. I…
18th April 2011 We are currently concluding arrangements with the Severn Valley Railway to send Dunrobin directly from Liverpool (where it will disembark the ship)…
18th April 2011 Whilst the GNSF has been the foremost preoccupation over the last few days, other projects have been proceeding. Bob Whetham sent these…
17th April 2011 Well, its been and gone. Most of the visiting exhibits have left, those remaining are packing ready to leave early in the…
17th April 2011 Here is another selection taken today, a glorious hot one with very high visitor numbers flooding into the Museum to enjoy some…
16th April 2011 These photos arrived today courtesy of Bob Whetham at Fort Steele and show Dunrobin being loaded onto a road trailer prior to…
16th April 2011 Here is a selection of photos from the event today, when the sun shone, 765 was repaired and able to run and…
15th April 2011 Today the event settled into something of a routine. The Y7 threw up a few foibles and unfortunately Manchester 765 has run…
14th April 2011 Here is a selection of photos from day one of the GNSF – the weather was overcast which doesn’t improve them, but…
13th April 2011 This morning the press call for the GNSF was held, with Coffee Pot in steam reunited with Baxter (which was out of…
13th April 2011 Last night Andy Martin took some atmospheric night time photographs of the shunting operations to put Baxter undercover. A clear night was…
12th April 2011 Below: Two views of Baxter looking very fetching in the Colliery. Tonight I’ll steam Coffee Pot and carry out some shunting to…
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