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)