Beamish museum opens up for two nights close to Christmas when it decorates the town in the style of Christmas 1913. Here a tram waits at the main tram stop in the town whilst an omnibus of the p... (more)

In the evening when all the visitors are gone, locomotives, trams and traction engines come out to play....RSH Sir Cecil Cochrane gives off a little steam one evening in the Rowley Station yard at... (more)

The fireman of 1954 built Andrew Barclay Sons and Co engine 'W.S.T.' empties the firebox at Rowley Station late one evening. Taken on a Canon 5D MKII, exposure was around 20 seconds.

In lovely evening light an unusual 0-4-0 Geared well tank locomotive 'Sir Vincent' shunts a couple of National Coal Board wagons at Beamish Colliery. This locomotive, was built by Aveling & Porter... (more)

In 1803, when aged 22, George Stephenson was appointed as the Superintendent Engineer at Killingworth Colliery. Stephenson persuaded Sir Thomas Liddle, later Lord Ravensworth, that the colliery wo... (more)

The official launch of replica locomotive STEAM ELEPHANT and a party of red coats fire a salute in its honour.

Arriving back from North America I paid a visit to Beamish museum where Locomotion on the right and Puffing Billy on the left were being fired up for the days' activities outside the 1825 replica ... (more)

Beamish Museum is holding a four day Power from the Past event over this weekend. In the town's main street a tram waits whilst a steam traction engine slowly trundles past. All day long different... (more)

Beamish Museum is holding a four day Power from the Past event over this weekend. Here is a view of the colliery area where the "coffee pot" is doing some shunting of wagons, a couple of narrow ga... (more)

Beamish Museum is holding a four day Power from the Past event over this weekend. Star attraction is the newly restored "Coffee Pot" which was originally built in 1871 and worked til the mid 60's ... (more)

Beamish museum held one of its steam weekends this week and here guest locomotive Paddy is "panned" as it takes a trip along its demonstration track. Paddy is a new build locomotive which ran for ... (more)

Special event at Beamish entitled Power through the Ages. No. 22, on loan from the Bowes railway, shunts a "coffee pot" which used to work in Seaham Harbour before being preserved at Beamish.

Special event today at Beamish entitled Power through the Ages. Replica of Locomotion, the first locomotive for the Stockton and Darlington railway, stands in the shed yard whilst a man ploughs a ... (more)

Special event today at Beamish entitled Power through the Ages. Here three different examples are seen together

The launch of Beamish museum's replica of the locomotive Puffing Billy. It was kept behind closed doors until the appropriate moment when the doors were flung aside and the loco came steaming out.