After a little break in reports, here are some photographs showing the recent restoration progress on our new accessible bus, ex Crosville Leyland Cub No.716, which…
With two of our vehicles occupying bays at Seb Marshall’s Historic Vehicle Restoration premises in Byfleet, the two projects are forging ahead with some purpose towards completion (of both) during the…
Following on from Jonathan’s post showing the work undertaken more or less behind the scenes at Beamish, here is a taster of what is ongoing, off site,…
Today has seen the very exciting arrival of a new addition to the transport collection at Beamish, with the arrival of ex Rotherham Corporation CVG6…
With all of the events of the last month, the regular news on the blog has been somewhat interrupted. Here are some snippets of news…
For the spring gathering (April 19th) at London Bus Museum, Brooklands, Historic Vehicle Restoration took our future accessible bus, Leyland Cub 716 (ex Crosville) along to the…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 21st March 2015 Another busy week behind us and with the weather warming up and projects on…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday February 21st 2015 Site work Below: The signalbox at Rowley Station is now nearing completion, with the…
Covering the period up to and including Saturday 31st 2015 Bus Restoration Below: This week we collected our second Leyland Cub, HL9621, from a location…
The remarkable pace of restoration of our Leyland Cub (ex Crosville) continues as the Historic Vehicle Restoration team apply their skills to the mechanical rebuild…
The title photo sums up much of what we try to achieve – to present to visitors a real sense of the past in tangible…
Having started to number the weekly news posts, it is clear that something went awry and we are a little short on numbers – I…
This week we look at our two main transport contracts – Dunrobin and 716 (the Leyland Cub) where significant progress has been made over the…
The photo above is a taster of what our new arrival, Blackpool 284 (nee 621) might look something like once restored – casting our minds…
The restoration of the Leyland Cub reached a significant stage last week when the new ramp was trial fitted, linking this restoration with the bus’…
The rate of progress being made on Leyland Cub 716 at Historic Vehicle Restoration continues to astonish! Some recent views are included here to show…
Seb Marshall and his team at Historic Vehicle Restoration are making remarkable progress on the restoration and adaptation of our ex Crosville Leyland Cub, No.716….
We have a mixture of news this week, looking outside at some contract work, preparations for next week’s Power from the Past and a day…
Historic Vehicle Restoration are well into the dismantling of the Cub, as shown in this sequence of events, with photos kindly supplied by Seb Marshall….
Leyland Cub No.716 Here is the first in what will no doubt be a regular series featuring the restoration of Leyland Cub 716, which is…
Today Tony, Brian and I met a party from Historic Vehicle Restorations and our Leyland Cub’s previous owner for a session preparing it for collection…
I have alluded to the new accessible bus that we are creating at Beamish, based on Leyland KP2 Cub Crosville No.716. Here is a little…
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