Festival of Transport 2025 Part 2

Festival of Transport 2025 Part 2

Here is a second gallery of images taken over the last few days, showing (primarily) the narrow gauge operation, which featured visiting locomotives Velinheli and…

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Beamish Museum - 1983

Beamish Museum – 1983

There has been quite a lot of discussion on social media platforms with regard to the railway at Beamish and the route it once took…

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Transport & Engineering Diary May 2025 Part 1

Transport & Engineering Diary May 2025 Part 1

May is going to be another busy month!  The notable occurrences are the re-commencement of operation at Rowley Station (24th May), and the Festival of…

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Workshop Diary March 2025 Part 1

Workshop Diary March 2025 Part 1

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…

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Workshop Diary SCT No.2: January Update

Workshop Diary SCT No.2: January Update

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…

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Workshop Diary January 2025

Workshop Diary January 2025

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…

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2024 - End of year review (and a look ahead to 2025)

2024 – End of year review (and a look ahead to 2025)

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…

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Workshop Diary November 2024

Workshop Diary November 2024

Welcome to another Workshop Diary – the last month has flown by, and so this report covers something of the end of the high-season, whilst…

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Workshop Diary September 2024

Workshop Diary September 2024

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…

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T&I News 12 2024

T&I News 12 2024

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…

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