There has been a great deal of interest in the visit of Manning Wardle No.1210 Sir Berkeley to Beamish, and having promised further steamings, here…
Our first Wheels of Industry event has been and gone, with nearly 11,000 visitors over the two days, making it successful operationally and commercially. Despite…
The week has been dominated by the arrival of exhibits for Wheels of Industry this weekend, and preparing the various railway exhibits for operation. Here…
The blog celebrates fifteen years of existence this month – which is rather hard to believe, looking back! Some of the earlier posts were rather…
It would be fair to say that news of the 2024 events programme is landing a little late – the pressures of everything else that…
I think it is fair to say that the blog is becoming more of a monthly newsletter now – and certainly for the T&I posts,…
Welcome to 2024! I very much hope to increase the rate of posting this year, as it fell a little behind my own aspirations for…
Happy new year to all readers, and we start the year with an exciting piece of news regarding the tramway… Readers may have seen elsewhere…
This is the final post of the year – probably the year with fewest posts for some time now, but they have kept up with…
Once again it has been a while since the last blog post. Work has been progressing on various fronts, but the majority of the time…
This post has a little bit of variety, including work taking place both indoors and outdoors. We are still in a period of planning for…
It has been a while since I sat at the keyboard to write a blog post! A combination of things have conspired to reduce the…
For this post I thought we’d focus on the recent transport gala and the narrow gauge railway in particular, given that we presented both a…
Another lengthy break in blog posts, due to having taken some unplanned leave. But work has continued on various fronts, and plans/arrangements remain underway for…
We had a new item of rolling stock on test at Beamish last week, in the shape of a new-build Stockton & Darlington Railway chaldron…
There is lots to report in this post, across a variety of areas of the team’s activity. There should be more to report next week…
I realise that July is upon us and that I have not done the customary summary of 2022, let alone the look ahead to 2023…
I’ve covered recent progress on Dunrobin’s restoration/overhaul in numerous posts, but being aware of the very specific interest in this locomotive, thought a summary of…
Firstly, an apology for the long gap since the last blog post – I’ve been away and also dealing with some family matters, so haven’t…
Thank you all of those who have responded regarding the future direction of this blog. For now, at least, and probably for the foreseeable future,…
After a few weeks away, the regular T&I update returns with this post, the tenth news update of the year. Puffing Billy returns to steam…
The Fares Please! event the weekend before last was a great success and operationally went very well indeed. Whilst the Monday weather deterred many, I’m…
The Beamish Tramway has attained the remarkable feat of fifty years continuous service to the museum, nearly as many years as the region’s original electric…
This weekend we will be holding a new, and possibly one-off transport event, titled ‘Fares Please!’ This was originally going to focus on the Tramway’s…
This post covers quite a few aspects of the transport activity at the museum, as I haven’t posted for a little while and there is…
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