After all the excitement of holding a mini-event last week, here is a post to sweep up a few other developments and to display a…
Hello and welcome to the blog. The clocks have changed, we’re enjoying some warm, sunny weather, and we look forward to the first stage of…
As material for the blog is a little in short supply at the moment, I thought that I would reflect upon one of our relatively…
There is something of a bus theme this week! However, to provide some balance, the steam locomotives are included, whose steam tests ahead of the…
Unbelievably, another February half-term is nearly over and we are enjoyed a fairly busy week at the museum, having largely escaped recent storms (other than…
Welcome to Beamish Transport Online 2020 – Happy New Year and here we go with the eleventh year of the transport blog covering the operational…
As has become something of a tradition, here is a review of the last 12 months (which make up a year that has absolutely flown…
Having featured buses quite extensively in recent weeks, we return, in this post, to matters of steam, with some updates on locomotive projects underway at…
Another busy couple of weeks have flown by, so here are some news items to keep abreast of work taking place within the transport department…
I start with an apology – this post will feature Samson, a lot! There has been a comment regarding the railway-heavy content on this blog. …
A short post this week – time having run away from us for a lengthier report! Bus Depot Below: David Watchman took these photos for…
The inevitable focus this week is on the arrival of Box 40 from Blackpool, and its subsequent commissioning prior to entering service at Beamish. I’ve…
In the last blog post I promised to update with the Narrow Gauge motive power for the GNSF, once we had confirmation on what we…
Where are the weeks going? I can’t believe it is late July now and the summer, so much anticipated, is now well underway (and raining!). …
With less than a week to go until the 2017 Great North Steam Fair, most of our work is centred on the preparation for this…
It has been half-term week at Beamish, alongside which numerous pre-season works have been underway. Whilst we are a year-round attraction now, there is still…
As has become customary, here is a brief review of 2016 and some of the highlights within the Transport & Industry/Site Support team. Needless to…
This week’s post is something of a scrapbook, covering some workshop and site works as well as last weekends Power from the Past enhanced transport…
Here is a post to add some information on the forthcoming Power from the Past weekend (next weekend). The dates for this have variously been…
Having had a fortnight off, then a week catching up, there is quite a bit of content in this posting! It is also worth mentioning…
The latest book in the occasional series of titles dealing with the transport collections has arrived – The Book of Samson… It was written by…
This last week brought with it some mixed weather, with scorching sunshine, a spectacular electrical storm and quite a bit of cloud too. Under these…
We have now moved out of the transport festival and into that bit of the season which offers something of a lull before the summer…
Today the running and commissioning trials of Samson began at Beamish. Having made a static (in steam) appearance at the Great War Steam Fair, further adjustments have…
Dave Hewitt very kindly sent through some of his images taken around the narrow gauge yesterday afternoon. We are already planning to develop the wood-sawing…
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