
There is quite a bit to report this week, as we’ve had both a number of challenges operationally, and also seen some milestones achieved in…

The last few weeks have been fairly challenging, as we are operating with a depleted team as recruitment is underway and COVID-19 has somewhat ravaged…

Blog coverage has been a little disrupted this last fortnight, but plenty is going on, and for some of it I took photographs to illustrate…

The team have had a busy week, not helped by a fairly widespread dose of COVID-19 resulting in several members having to isolate. Trams and…

Warden Law Engine This year (2022) marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Hetton Railway in Co Durham – a significant occasion in…

This post is a bit of a sweeping up of lose ends exercise, with various bits of news to report. We also had updated figures…

Well, that was quite a weekend!!! The first Beamish Steam Gala format event was blessed with decent weather, superb exhibits and a very good visitor…

This week, as alluded to in the previous post, has been around preparation for the Steam Gala. On Thursday, some of the heavy haulage exhibits…

This week is, as would be expected, all about preparing for the Beamish Steam Gala this coming weekend. The first exhibits arrived on Monday, with…

This post sweeps up a few different themes, that reflect recent progress and look ahead to the forthcoming Beamish Steam Gala… As a result, there…

The restoration of the Darlington Corporation bus shelter took another important step forward with the arrival of the restored structure at Beamish last Friday. The…

After a bit of a gap, the news returns… We’ve been very busy across the museum, in all departments. It is also the time of…

This week has been half-term at the museum, so we have been open every day and welcoming a steady stream of visitors – many coming…

This week’s post includes some nice milestones – including the start of testing on the Foulbridge – Town section of the Tramway. There is quite…

In various posts in the recent past I have alluded to our review of all things operational and events. We are now finalising our events…

In this report we take a look specifically at the ongoing restoration of ex Dundee Gas Works Kerr Stuart 0-4-0WT No.721. This project is largely…

Today we called in at North Bay Engineering to view progress on the restoration of the Darlington cast-iron bus shelter. Since we last saw it,…

As has become the annual tradition, I thought a review of the year was timely, and like 2020’s article, it has the inevitable cloud of…

The blog resumes following a short hibernation (as I was on paternity leave!) with an update covering the period I was off. Matt kept notes…

Below: No.18 has been relocated to Rowley Station in order to carry out the shunting associated with Christmas (grottos once again being assembled in the…

Last weekend, we had No.18 and No.1370 in steam in the late afternoon in readiness for darkness, when Andy Martin was visiting us in order…

After last week’s bumper post, this week is a little shorter! I have a couple of other, subject specific, posts in the pipeline however, to…

This week there is quite a lot to report, so I will probably spill some of the image-based content into separate posts next week. Meanwhile,…

Looking at all of the news coverage this week, it certainly feels we’re hitting our stride again, with work very near pre-pandemic levels once again. …

Return of the trams! We’ve waited a long time for this day, and it has been something we know visitors have keenly missed up to…
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