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…
In this post we look at some non-engineering activities that have been underway over the last week or so… Work is still underway to look…
We’ve a strong engineering bias to this week’s post. Matt has been taking detailed photographs of various processes that are often referred to but not…
The weeks are becoming busier as the teams get into their stride with the backlog of maintenance jobs accrued over the last year or so. …
There has been plenty going on this week, so it is nice to compile a detailed blog post recording some of the activity. I tend…
In June 2014, we announced the purchase of our next accessible bus, know more correctly described as a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (as it is often…
We’ve reached the summer half term holiday, including a Bank Holiday Monday within it, and the museum has certainly become much busier. We had targetted…
A short post this time, as much of the progress made is a continuation of work seen previously, including Gateshead 10, whose engineering challenges are…
Monday 17th May marked the beginning of Step 3 in the Government roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions. As part of this, we are now able…
Last week Beamish reopened, though not without a few dramas along the way (as might be expected when waking any site from a period of…
I should start with an apology – it has been quite a length of time since the last post on the blog – largely as…
Here is a news-worthy post on here for a change! A new addition to the vehicle collection… Murton Colliery Cooperative Society Mobile Shop Around two…
This will be the last general news post of 2020, with a review of the year to be posted next week. Depending on time, I…
We now reach December, and with the end of the national lockdown but in practice little to relish as the region enters a period of…
It is hard to believe that it is mid-November already! I was writing up some notes for the next edition of the Beamish magazine (which…
Well, no sooner had I said ‘staff returning from furlough’ the whole picture changed as the UK Government announced further restrictions, which brought about the…
As members of staff return to work from their lengthy furlough, the workshops and technical teams are assessing the engineering and transport systems as we…
Once again it has been a bit tricky finding news to report on this blog, as the transport situation remains static, with the two Daimlers…
The present level of opening, with many staff still furloughed, means that there is little change one day to the next in terms of transport…
There has been very little to report on the transport blog lately (for obvious reasons), meanwhile the operation of the museum in these new and…
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