Beamish Transport Online

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 with an update on Dunrobin’s boiler.  The valve gear/motion for this locomotive is also largely complete...

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 & Darlington Railway in 1825.  With events across the country, we thought that we’d mark the occasion as well...

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 leaks etc.) have been to fill the boiler with water and light a fire in order to...

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 to develop its reliability and reduce its tendency to smoking and shedding petrol on the road.
One job was to make a new back box for the exhaust.  The original exhaust system needed to generate sufficient back-pressure to run the lubricator (readers may recall the tyre pump connected to this in the last post about the SHEW, to provide the necessary...