A little while ago, we were contacted by the new owner of the Stanhopeburn mining site, which had closed (by then, for fluorspar extraction) in…
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…
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,…
Our first Wheels of Industry event has been and gone, with nearly 11,000 visitors over the two days, making it successful operationally and commercially. Despite…
This post has a little bit of variety, including work taking place both indoors and outdoors. We are still in a period of planning for…
For this post I thought we’d focus on the recent transport gala and the narrow gauge railway in particular, given that we presented both a…
I realise that July is upon us and that I have not done the customary summary of 2022, let alone the look ahead to 2023…
Firstly, an apology for the long gap since the last blog post – I’ve been away and also dealing with some family matters, so haven’t…
The day before our transport events usually sees various guest exhibits being inspected and tested, prior to their appearance on the busty event days. This…
Welcome to the first blog post of 2023, and we wish all blog readers a happy and peaceful 2023. We pick up where we left…
Here is the latest news from the transport and engineering team at Beamish. A mix of coverage, as usual, and probably the penultimate post this…
There is quite a bit to report from the last week or so, covering some familiar topics. Meanwhile, the site maintenance team are busy establishing…
For this post we take a look at a past-resident of the museum, one of the two repatriated Durham County Water Board locomotives that had…
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…
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…
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’s post includes some nice milestones – including the start of testing on the Foulbridge – Town section of the Tramway. There is quite…
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…
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…
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,…
The weeks following the summer holidays often remain busy and that has been no exception this year. Whilst behind the scenes, work has progressed along…
I haven’t managed to take as many photographs this week – the site being generally very busy with visitors (which is good!) and the back-of-house…
This week has certainly been a warm one! Looking at some of the track on site, we’ve had a fair bit of distortion in the…
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