I realised I hadn’t posted this part-made post, so I’ve included it here for completeness, along with a lot of updates from the last few…
For this post we take a look at a past-resident of the museum, one of the two repatriated Durham County Water Board locomotives that had…
There is quite a bit to report this week, as we’ve had both a number of challenges operationally, and also seen some milestones achieved in…
The last few weeks have been fairly challenging, as we are operating with a depleted team as recruitment is underway and COVID-19 has somewhat ravaged…
Blog coverage has been a little disrupted this last fortnight, but plenty is going on, and for some of it I took photographs to illustrate…
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…
Warden Law Engine This year (2022) marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Hetton Railway in Co Durham – a significant occasion in…
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…
Here is a short update this week, to keep news posts ticking along… Engineering Below: The two portable ‘pits have arrived from North Bay Railway…
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…
The restoration of the Darlington Corporation bus shelter took another important step forward with the arrival of the restored structure at Beamish last Friday. The…
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 has been half-term at the museum, so we have been open every day and welcoming a steady stream of visitors – many coming…
This week we have a miscellaneous round-up of transport and engineering news. As readers will no doubt know, the big news has been the opening…
Planning for the April Steam Gala continues, and we are now in a position to announce some more exhibits. All the way back in 2017…
This week’s post includes some nice milestones – including the start of testing on the Foulbridge – Town section of the Tramway. There is quite…
In various posts in the recent past I have alluded to our review of all things operational and events. We are now finalising our events…
In this report we take a look specifically at the ongoing restoration of ex Dundee Gas Works Kerr Stuart 0-4-0WT No.721. This project is largely…
Today we called in at North Bay Engineering to view progress on the restoration of the Darlington cast-iron bus shelter. Since we last saw it,…
Here are some more images and a film of No.18’s last day in steam yesterday – David Watchman filmed these for our social media platforms,…
Happy New Year and welcome to a the first blog post of 2022 (if we exclude the review of 2021, which was started last year…
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