Because the guest engines at Beamish museum's Festival of Steam ran on 15 inch gauge track it meant that for the first time locomotives with three different guages could be seen in one palce. Here... (more)

Beamish museum held it annual steam fair last weekend and was rather low key compared to previous years. 2 guest engines came from the Ravenglas sand Eskdale railway which neccesitated building a ... (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)

Steam that did run on Sunday was this 0-4-0 Peckett. The second coach is one that was transported from British Columbia a couple of years ago and has been restored. The locomotive that came with i... (more)

The three replica early locomotives at Beamish museum are housed in a replica shed from 1825. On Sundays one is usually steamed to haul a rake of early coaches. Sunday last and nothing was running... (more)

Taking water

Replica locomotive Puffing Billy takes visitors for a short ride on Beamish waggonway. Designed to illustrate train travel in 1825. The original Puffing Billy was built in 1813 for transporting co... (more)

Replica locomotive Puffing Billy raises steam in the 1825 shed yard before performing its daily duties of hauling visitors along a short stretch of line close to Pockerley manor house.

Another area of the narrow gauge which has been recently opened. Here guest engine 104 is at the head of a train carrying sawn wood. The traction engine has been harnessed to drive a belt which in... (more)

This weekend is Beamish museum's annual steam fair and this year it has a World War 1 theme. In the pit yard two narrow gauge steam locomotives vie for attention with a narrow gauge armoured senti... (more)

Replica locomotive the Steam Elephant backs onto its coaches in the shed yard at Beamish museum. This locomotive was built using only an oil painting that was in the museum's collection for guide ... (more)

After seeing my picture of the two Hunslett quarry locomotives on this site , the guy in charge of transport at Beamish invited me back after hours to take them in the sunshine. This also involved... (more)

After seeing my picture of the two Hunslett quarry locomotives on this site , the guy in charge of transport at Beamish invited me back after hours to take them in the sunshine