For the first part of the month, here is a fleet/site round-up, to record progress on numerous vehicles. Readers will have noted the previous post…
The 27th September is an important day in the calendar for railway history, being 200 years, to the day, since the opening of the Stockton…
Dunrobin’s new dome components arrived recently at Bridgnorth, enabling the boiler reconstruction to be completed. The next steps in the process (after water testing for…
After the triumph of seeing the SHEW car in operation, for the first in generations, a number of tasks have been attended to in order…
This month has passed by in something of a blur, with lots happening, and therefore quite a bit to report. The separate post regarding the…
In the programme of vehicle conservation and restoration, a number of key dates have been identified as being of significance to certain vehicles within the…
We round off July’s diary updates with more progress on Gateshead 10 and an exciting development on the Daimler CC lorry. Gateshead 10 has received…
There is a lot to report already this month, so we’ll split the output into two-parts, once again. In this post we catch up with…
After a period of commissioning, cosmetic attention and a re-upholstering, former Weardale Motor Services Leyland Titan PD2/1 KPT 909 has now been signed off for…
There is just the one post this month – there was plenty to report in May, and June has been a process of putting the…
In connection with an event in July, we’ve brought in another visiting locomotive. A Collier’s Life: At Work & Play This is in the form…
Here is a second gallery of images taken over the last few days, showing (primarily) the narrow gauge operation, which featured visiting locomotives Velinheli and…
As part of the event coverage, here are some images taken on the Sat/Sun/Tues/Wed of the Festival of Transport (the second half will be covered…
There has been quite a lot of discussion on social media platforms with regard to the railway at Beamish and the route it once took…
A shorter diary update this time, as there are several other posts appearing over the course of the next week or so. Darlington 4 Below:…
This post is a bit of an update on activities here ahead of re-starting the passenger trains at Rowley Station and welcoming several visiting muses…
As readers will know, Dunrobin’s restoration is being undertaken at the Severn Valley Railway’s engineering works at Bridgnorth, where exciting progress is being made towards…
May is going to be another busy month! The notable occurrences are the re-commencement of operation at Rowley Station (24th May), and the Festival of…
As we approach the Festival of Transport, a host of buses, road vehicles, road steam engines and railway locomotives are lined up to appear over…
It is now five years since the last passenger operations at Rowley Station, during February half-term 2020 and featuring Peckett 0-6-0ST No.2000. Not long afterwards…
This second instalment of April’s Workshop Diary contains some new threads, covering development work associated with Oporto 196, further signage developments and progress reports on…
It is surprising (or maybe not!) just how quickly we get to Easter each year – traditionally the focal point for completing the winter maintenance…
For the final post of the three Workshop Diaries this month, we catch up on a few of the jobs not covered in detail elsewhere… …
The revival of the Armstrong Whitworth has caused a great deal of interest at Beamish and readers may well have seen it appear on the…
We continue our look at the restoration/maintenance activity around the transport collections in this second part of two (maybe even three!) posts for March 2025… …
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