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T&I News Post 3 2017…
There are a couple of updates this week, so we start with the NER station… Rowley Station Below: Regular volunteer Peter has made two replica ‘Rowley’ signalbox boards, copies of an original board...
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Out on the road…
It has been a little while since I’ve been out on the road to look at potential visiting exhibits or objects we may consider bringing on working loans to Beamish. Last week I broke the duck and...
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T&I News Post 4 2017…
It has been half-term week at Beamish, alongside which numerous pre-season works have been underway. Whilst we are a year-round attraction now, there is still a semblance of high and low season still,...
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T&I News Post 5 2017…
There is quite a bit to report in this post, after a short break on the blog… We start with work taking place in the RHEC… STOP PRESS!!! Today the blog clicked over the 1 million views mark, which...
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T&I News Post 6 2017…
This time there is a little less from the workshops and a bit more from the sunny outdoors (sunny – not warm!)… This post covers the last seven days or so to the 23rd March 2017. Waggonway Below: A...
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T&I News Post 7 2017…
A double-post this week, to round things off and catch up with news around the team… Plus the sun shone for some photos to be taken! RHEC Below: Tony and Matt B have been busy creating a dedicated...
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T&I News Post 8 2017…
With less than a week to go until the 2017 Great North Steam Fair, most of our work is centred on the preparation for this event, with the first rolling stock arrivals being readied for their role....
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Preparations for the GNSF 2017…
Planning the Great North Steam Fair takes a great deal of preparatory work by a range of staff and volunteers. As a result, there are chances to grab previews of the exhibits, and I’ve included just a...
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GNSF 2017 Day 1…
It has been a busy day at Beamish, and with so much to get ready, not many photos were captured, but for what it is worth, here is a very brief selection that I managed to grab during the day –...
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GNSF 2017 Day 2…
A sunny start was soon solid cloud for the day (the sun returning at around 6pm!), but the event got into full swing and so here is a selection of photos showing a little of what was taking place…
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GNSF – Looking back…
Well, nearly two weeks have passed since the whirlwind that was the 2017 Great North Steam Fair. The event can be considered to have been successful - no major incidents, all passed safely and whilst...
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T&I News Post 9 2017…
We look at a couple of projects in a reasonable amount of depth in this post, in order to give them coverage they had otherwise missed but also to ring the changes following the steam fair. We also...
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Samson’s visit to Wales…
It has been an eventful few weeks, though I apologise that blog coverage has been a little stifled lately. It has another small extension of its chunk of the internet, so hopefully we’ll be ok for a...
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T&I News Post 10 2017…
There has been a bit of a quiet spell on the blog lately – partly as not too much ‘new’ news occurred to report and also as a lot of what is underway tends to repeat what has appeared here before....
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T&I News Post 11 2017…
This week we look at the vehicles in and around the workshops, these being the subject of the efforts of various teams of staff and volunteers, increasingly so as their mileage increases year on year....
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T&I News Post 12 2017…
This week we have a more varied collection of news snippets, as various projects progress, some new ones appear and others draw (I really hope!) to a conclusion… Rowley Station Below: A few years ago...
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T&I News Post 13 2017…
Normal service is resumed in this post – with the latest progress from around the workshops. We also have No.18 back in traffic in the Colliery, complete with new regulator linkage – this has much...
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T&I News 14 2017…
This week I’ve mixed news with some archive material that I thought readers might enjoy. We also look at the formal launch of the accessible bus in its new colours, complete with period and modern...
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T&I News 15 2017…
Where are the weeks going? I can’t believe it is late July now and the summer, so much anticipated, is now well underway (and raining!). As ever here are some updates, including a piece on Dunrobin’s...
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News from the Industry and Maintenance Teams
In a varied blog post, and my first for some time, I thought I would begin with a recent addition to the museum’s collection. Museum curators can, increasingly, be found scouring the pages of Ebay for...
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