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T&I News 7 2019…
The inevitable focus this week is on the arrival of Box 40 from Blackpool, and its subsequent commissioning prior to entering service at Beamish. I’ve also added a few other interesting/relevant...
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T&I News 8 2019…
Apologies for the fairly lengthy gestation of this report – lots happening and a lot of work on Remaking Beamish to cover as well. Our focus here is on the preparations for the steam fair, and as...
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T&I News 9 2019…
Preparations are well underway for the forthcoming Great North Steam Fair. Friday and Saturday last week were spent shunting the Colliery standard and narrow gauge railways, sorting and tidying the...
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T&I News 10 2019…
I start this post with a reminder that the Great North Steam Fair starts tomorrow! Four very full days of veteran road vehicles, trams, buses, trains and cycles, all active and spread across the...
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Great North Steam Fair
I’m sure blog readers will be interested to see what is happening with the Great North Steam Fair this weekend – it would be fair to say it has been extremely busy with a superb turnout of exhibits....
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Great North Steam Fair on Facebook
I realise I often refer to the Museum’s Facebook page as a source of information or images at times. But also realise that not all readers of the blog will be on Facebook. It can be viewed here, I...
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Great North Steam Fair 2019 – Retrospective…
A few days on from the 2019 steam fair, here is a post with a few photographic highlights – which are a sample of what is contained within a new gallery (see headings ‘Gallery’ then ‘Great North Steam...
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T&I News 11 2019…
Most of this post is focused on the operation of buses at Beamish – including the rapid construction of the new depot and workshop as well as the purchase of a new motorbus for use here at the museum…...
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Seven trams in service…
The blog recently recorded that we presently have the rather grand total of seven trams available for service! To note this occasion, Matt Ellis and the tramway team arranged to parade and photograph...
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Daimler buses together…
This morning Rotherham 220 and Darlington 4 were posed in the Town street for photographs to be taken for future publicity material use. This obviously won’t be their long-term haunt (as they will...
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