Beamish museum every September have a 4 day event entitled Agricultural Power from the Past which gives the staff in charge of the railways to run guest motive power along with their own stock. th... (more)

Vulcan raises steam outside the shed at Beamish pit yard prior to spending a day shunting wagons

Beamish museum held their annual Great Steam Event this weekend and one of the working exhibits was this recreation of the use of narrow gauge engines on temporary lines. Around 100 years ago, in ... (more)

Replica locomotive Planet heads a train of visitors along the short line at Beamish museum

It is that time of year again when Beamish museum opens on a Friday evening so that visitors can celebrate a 1913 Christmas. Sadly this year no steam trains were running so I had to concentrate on... (more)

The Par twins were the guests at Beamish museum's agricultural power event last month. They are the basis of Bill and Ben in the Thomas the Tank engine books. Here they are coupled to wagons for ... (more)

David has to find the point switch so that coffee pot can run round its wagons

Rocket gets attached to its coaches as the Steam elephant is cleaned after its turn yesterday

Pockerley manor house overlooks the waggonway which is used this week by Rocket

Andrew Barclay No 22 of Bowes Railway is seen shunting at Beamish over their North East steam weekend

This weekend sees the North East steam festival in Beamish museum and one of the guests is a replica of the Rocket. George Stephenson's locomotive which won the Rainhill trials in 1829 and went on... (more)

The Sunderland tram heads for Beamish town centre to take what few visitors there were back to the entrance of the museum.

Crew of the Y7 used by Beamish before Christmas check the fire whilst waiting for passengers

Last day of evening visits to Beamish museum and the Y7 sits at Rowley station waiting for passengers

Waiting for the next set of travellers, the crew of the LNER Y7 talk in the gentle drizzle that plagued the evening