The team have had a busy week, not helped by a fairly widespread dose of COVID-19 resulting in several members having to isolate. Trams and…
Work on the Darlington Corporation bus shelter has been on hold whilst we await the availability of our painter and a reasonable stint of good…
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…
Well, that was quite a weekend!!! The first Beamish Steam Gala format event was blessed with decent weather, superb exhibits and a very good visitor…
This week, as alluded to in the previous post, has been around preparation for the Steam Gala. On Thursday, some of the heavy haulage exhibits…
This week is, as would be expected, all about preparing for the Beamish Steam Gala this coming weekend. The first exhibits arrived on Monday, with…
This post sweeps up a few different themes, that reflect recent progress and look ahead to the forthcoming Beamish Steam Gala… As a result, there…
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…
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…
After last week’s bumper post, this week is a little shorter! I have a couple of other, subject specific, posts in the pipeline however, to…
Looking at all of the news coverage this week, it certainly feels we’re hitting our stride again, with work very near pre-pandemic levels once again. …
After the excitement of the Autumn Steam Gala, Monday brought another event, of sorts, with the Omnibus Society attending the museum as part of their…
I wasn’t able to take many photographs during the steam (and other transport) gala last weekend, but the ones that I did manage were blessed…
This weeks post inevitably focusses on the forthcoming transport activities this weekend, but I’ve also included a video that I am sure readers will enjoy. …
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…
Return of the trams! We’ve waited a long time for this day, and it has been something we know visitors have keenly missed up to…
This week’s post reflects the ongoing efforts to ready the tramway for operation, as well as a few other operations odds and ends that I…
This week saw an important event take place, albeit in the hours before the museum opened on Tuesday; namely the first tramcar movement (outside of…
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…
We have a colourful variety of news items this week, starting with the Waggonway and then covering engineering and buses. We’ve had some rain this…
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…
We’re back to looking at some of the engineering taking place behind the scenes this week, starting with the fabrication shop and moving onto the…
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