Every year Beamish museum opens its doors for three Fridays before Christmas for visitors to experience a 1913 Christmas. These are the ony times when it is possible to photograph the trams and tr... (more)

On the left locomotive "JACK LANE" heads up the grade and past locomotive"STATFOLD". Both the subject of my last photograph from Beamish museum

A couple of weeks ago Beamish museum held its annual steam fair. Two guest locomotives came from the Statfold Barn museum and they have yet to return. The two men in charge of the railways at Beam... (more)

The second day of Beamish musem's four day Festival of Steam. Scene is of the colliery yard where locomotive "Lewin" is bringing in a rake of Chaldron wagons which the coffee pot(red loc... (more)

Beamish museum on a sunny Sunday and we haven't had many of those. Coffee pots in double harness though only the front locomotive was in steam. hauling a train of Chaldron wagons which were used i... (more)

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)

From 2nd September to the 5th Beamish Museum in North East England hosted a horse tram from machester, the tram was powered by two of Beamish's finest to make up two horse power. The tram is seen ... (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.

Beamish Museum Co Durham has a reconstructed waggonway replicating railway operations in 1825, (the rails are non authentic as this would have been a plate way). Here we see reproduction locomoti... (more)

Beamish Museum Co Durham has a reconstructed waggonway replicating railway operations in 1825, (the rails are non authentic as this would have been a plate way). This night shot features all thre... (more)