The half-term has arrived and the site is busy with visitors and staff, who are also preparing for the sell-out Halloween evenings, a couple of…
Dare I say we’ve been very busy lately?! It seems to be a repetition that hardly need occur, but in recent weeks has been particularly…
Anyone visiting the museum over the last couple of weeks can’t have failed to notice the large around of ground works taking place around the…
We were recently invited to see the inaugural steaming of the Bingfield Engine at Anson Engine Museum, Cheshire. The Bingfield Engine & Thresher, made between…
This week we have a bit of an engineering focus for those who are interested in the minutia of some of the jobs carried out…
We have quite a mixed bag this week – I’m trying to sweep up various bits of news and occurrences in one post! One last…
After some time in pieces, 1907 built Sheffield 264 has now been reassembled into a recognisable shape once again as it enters the final stages…
Well, autumn seems to have arrived – golden leaves are appearing across the Museum and we’ve been basking in warm sunshine for over a week! Rain last week did…
Sometimes you need a few days away! My Dad and I thus set a weekend to do some ‘steam stuff’ and this combined a trip…
I’ve been off site quite a bit over the last two weeks so here is a quick summary of news for the blog, with the…
With the rolling frames of Samson more or less completed, we took the opportunity today to take them down to the narrow gauge railway and…
Power from the Past used to be the theme of the first weekend f September four-day event each year, but this year has been replaced…
There has further narrow gauge activity at Beamish this week – here is a video of our riveting activity last week followed by an overview…
Its been a busy week! As the other recent posts reveal, activity can come in bursts, and last week was no exception for Samson, with…
As there are a number of other detailed reports appearing, this week’s T&I news is a shorter one. Below: The new entrance board to the…
After a little break in reports, here are some photographs showing the recent restoration progress on our new accessible bus, ex Crosville Leyland Cub No.716, which…
A slightly shorter post this week – mortgaging the available space we have available at present for storage of the blog and the rather large…
There is quite a lot to catch up with this week, so her we go with the usual varied round of news from the T&I…
As seen elsewhere on the blog, recent attention by the Site Support Team has been focussed upon the station area. As part of the repainting…
Though the day to day demands of the summer holidays places the support teams under a great deal of pressure (not least due to the…
Once a year the Threlkeld Quarry Railway near Keswick in the Lake District holds a narrow gauge themed gala – as has appeared in these…
The Museum’s bus fleet is formed of three vehicles at present – two very good replicas plus one accessible bus. Of the two replicas, the…
Another week has passed by, and as ever it was a busy one in the T&I department at Beamish. I spent a few days on the…
Since the arrival of Samson’s components a few weeks ago, David (and Chris) have been busy progressing the project – as was seen in the previous…
We’ve had a fairly intensive period of working on the Remaking Beamish project, so things on here may seem a little quiet, but this isn’t…
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