We close the month with some images of Glyder in Cumbria, and an update on the Armstrong Whitworth car, which is now in the ‘keep…
We start another busy month, with July’s weather encouraging visitors to the museum, where often rather challenging temperatures have had to be endured by the…
The latter half of June saw further progress made on previously reported work streams and projects, despite some stifling temperatures in the workshops (and even…
Here are a few images taken during the event’s Saturday and Sunday days (it also runs to Monday). The use of the 1950s area is…
It’s well past mid-May and with a busy latter half of the month anticipated, here is an update for the first half of the month,…
Well, the best laid plans… I’ve still not managed to find time over the busy Easter period to learn how to post on the new…
At last the long wet days of winter seem behind us, with some good weather and corresponding good progress on numerous projects outside, and the…
I thought reporting of progress on the two Armstrong Whitworth projects deserved their own post – partly as it may make them easier to find…
With plenty of content by mid-January, there will be enough material to have three posts this month, covering something of the variety of workshop and…
As has become traditional for this blog, I have compiled a review of 2025’s activities (well, some of them!) and outlined these as a month-by-month…
Just one update this month, largely as there hasn’t been much time to write up the post, not because there isn’t plenty to report! November…
October is proving to be as busy as every other month has been, with lots of news from the team as activity in various areas…
The 27th September is an important day in the calendar for railway history, being 200 years, to the day, since the opening of the Stockton…
After the triumph of seeing the SHEW car in operation, for the first in generations, a number of tasks have been attended to in order…
In the programme of vehicle conservation and restoration, a number of key dates have been identified as being of significance to certain vehicles within the…
We round off July’s diary updates with more progress on Gateshead 10 and an exciting development on the Daimler CC lorry. Gateshead 10 has received…
After a period of commissioning, cosmetic attention and a re-upholstering, former Weardale Motor Services Leyland Titan PD2/1 KPT 909 has now been signed off for…
There is just the one post this month – there was plenty to report in May, and June has been a process of putting the…
Here is a second gallery of images taken over the last few days, showing (primarily) the narrow gauge operation, which featured visiting locomotives Velinheli and…
This second instalment of April’s Workshop Diary contains some new threads, covering development work associated with Oporto 196, further signage developments and progress reports on…
It is surprising (or maybe not!) just how quickly we get to Easter each year – traditionally the focal point for completing the winter maintenance…
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…
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