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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Railway 200 at Beamish 2025 - The Railway Attractions

Railway 200 at Beamish 2025 – The Railway Attractions

As we approach the Festival of Transport, a host of buses, road vehicles, road steam engines and railway locomotives are lined up to appear over…

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Sir Berkeley to make a return visit

Sir Berkeley to make a return visit

After being a little obscure about the potential identity of our next visiting locomotive, I can now confirm (as one or two of you guessed)…

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Beamish Festival of Transport May 2025

Beamish Festival of Transport May 2025

After mentioning that there would be a change to our event format for 2025 (see the post below), I can now confirm our 2025 programme,…

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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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T&I News 9 2024...

T&I News 9 2024…

The blog returns after a short break (as I was on annual leave), with a summary of work that has been taking place in the…

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T&I News 5 2024...

T&I News 5 2024…

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,…

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Sir Berkeley Steaming dates...

Sir Berkeley Steaming dates…

There has been a great deal of interest in the visit of Manning Wardle No.1210 Sir Berkeley to Beamish, and having promised further steamings, here…

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T&I News 2 2024...

T&I News 2 2024…

I think it is fair to say that the blog is becoming more of a monthly newsletter now – and certainly for the T&I posts,…

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T&I News 17 2023...

T&I News 17 2023…

It has been a while since I sat at the keyboard to write a blog post!  A combination of things have conspired to reduce the…

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T&I News 16 2023...

T&I News 16 2023…

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…

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T&I News 14 2023...

T&I News 14 2023…

We had a new item of rolling stock on test at Beamish last week, in the shape of a new-build Stockton & Darlington Railway chaldron…

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2023 - 2026: Looking ahead to the next three years...

2023 – 2026: Looking ahead to the next three years…

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…

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