For the final post of the three Workshop Diaries this month, we catch up on a few of the jobs not covered in detail elsewhere… …
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… …
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…
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…
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…
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…
This month’s Workshop Diary is appearing a little earlier, as there are some posts earmarked for the festive period and I didn’t want to crowd…
The expansion of the museum’s bus fleet continues; the latest bus to join the collection being Leyland Titan PD2/1 KPT 909. Built in 1949, the…
As suggested in the last post, there is a second part to October’s Workshop Diary. There are a number of other posts in preparation, and…
We might just squeeze another report into October, but as this post was getting longer and longer, it seemed prudent to publish and show some…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
The blog celebrates fifteen years of existence this month – which is rather hard to believe, looking back! Some of the earlier posts were rather…
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…
It has been a while since I sat at the keyboard to write a blog post! A combination of things have conspired to reduce the…
We had a new item of rolling stock on test at Beamish last week, in the shape of a new-build Stockton & Darlington Railway chaldron…
The Fares Please! event the weekend before last was a great success and operationally went very well indeed. Whilst the Monday weather deterred many, I’m…
This post covers quite a few aspects of the transport activity at the museum, as I haven’t posted for a little while and there is…
This post marks a return to regular blog updates after some interruption in recent weeks – there has been a great-deal going on, which hasn’t…
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