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T&I News 9 2018
This posting is largely pictorial and includes a few random galleries relating to recent events etc. RHEC Below: The Model T team have stripped the Ton Truck down to its bare form as they continue to...
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T&I News 10 2018…
Welcome back to the Beamish Transport Blog… As many of you will know, the original site suffered some issues recently, not least an amount of spam appearing for readers, and the site’s storage being...
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T&I News 11 2018…
More news from the RHEC in this post… On site work continues to repaint the Colliery screens/winder house building. The school holidays have begun too – so the maintenance team will be engaged in the...
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T&I News 12 2018…
A shorter report this time – just to bring readers up to date on the items reported in post number 11… Rowley Station Below: The latest hire locomotive, built by Peckett (works number 2000) has arrived...
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T&I News 13 2018…
This week we see progress on vehicles and rolling stock – the high mileages of the bus and tram fleet being particularly noticeable at this time of year and resulting in the slightly earlier than...
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T&I News 14 2018…
A good deal of news from the machine shop this week… The Dandy coach is also progressing well, with varnishing and cosmetic detailing underway whilst we wait on the delivery of American oak for the...
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T&I News 15 2018…
More updates on ongoing projects and maintenance this week… The RHEC is making headway on a number of fronts, some of which are smaller jobs which promise to be reasonably time consuming but have...
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T&I News 16 2018…
This week’s post is more of an interim one as I haven’t been around the site as much during the week… Steam Operations Below: Rambler, which is in use at least two days per week, suffered a hot big-end...
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T&I News 18 2018
For this post we have an eclectic mix of projects from the workshops and out on site… Rowley Station Below: With the assistance of the Friends of Beamish workshop team, new oil lamp posts and brackets...
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T&I News 1 2019
Welcome to the blog in 2019. Here we have the annual summary of tramcar mileages as well as an update of what is going on in and around the workshops. Regular readers will be familiar with our annual...
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T&I News 5 2019
A glance through the content of this post reveals just how varied the work is, and how much is going on, carried out largely by a fairly small team of staff and volunteers. The winter maintenance work...
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Remaking Beamish: Bus Depot
One of the next elements of the Remaking Beamish programme to be commenced is a new, purpose-designed, bus depot. The work on site has already commenced, to prepare for piling and ground...
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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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