We continue our look at the restoration/maintenance activity around the transport collections in this second part of two (maybe even three!) posts for March 2025… …
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…
The ongoing work to revive the 1906 Armstrong Whitworth open tourer continues. With the garage shuffle to release it from the showroom complete, it has…
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,…
We are approaching the end of the month of February, and already there seems to be a lot that has taken place this year! When…
Some years ago I was introduced to two fire engines that were stored in the fire station at Tynemouth. Over subsequent years (probably over a…
I thought that readers might appreciate a little insight into some of the day to day challenges of maintaining a historic fleet of buses. Sunderland…
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…
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…
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…
It was inevitable that as soon as I published the December update, there would be more news for the blog, that ideally fits into any…
This month’s Workshop Diary is appearing a little earlier, as there are some posts earmarked for the festive period and I didn’t want to crowd…
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…
The expansion of the museum’s bus fleet continues; the latest bus to join the collection being Leyland Titan PD2/1 KPT 909. Built in 1949, the…
As suggested in the last post, there is a second part to October’s Workshop Diary. There are a number of other posts in preparation, and…
We might just squeeze another report into October, but as this post was getting longer and longer, it seemed prudent to publish and show some…
Today, the 1st October, marks the 70th anniversary of the closure of the Sunderland Corporation Tramway system. With Sunderland 16 emerging from our workshops after…
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…
I’m catching up with posts and news, after taking some leave in August and being away for work too. So after the post dedicated to…
Last weekend we held our second Fares Please! transport event. Once again the focus was inevitably on buses, though Lisbon 730 was on display outside…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Thank you all of those who have responded regarding the future direction of this blog. For now, at least, and probably for the foreseeable future,…
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