It’s been a long time coming, but the main 2020 season for a number of Britain’s heritage railways and attractions is springing into action following
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Tag: Beamish Museum
TMS marks six decades of operations at Crich museum
THE Tramway Museum Society (TMS) celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the museum in the old Cliff Quarry at Crich in 1959 with
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Glyder returns to steam
GRAHAM Morris’ Andrew Barclay 0-4-0WT Glyder (1994/1931) steamed for the first time since 1965 on June 19 at Beamish. It was originally supplied to Durham
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Beamish Museum tram fleet line-up in unusual photo shoot
The parade was arranged in order to take a new crop of promotional photographs for use in future publicity material.
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National Railway Museum to uncover truth about the ‘Hetton Lyon’
The National Railway Museum has begun an investigation into the true origins of the Hetton Colliery loco Lyon of 1855.
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Sheffield No. 264 tops Beamish annual mileage chart again
SHEFFIELD Corporation double-deck balcony car No. 264 topped Beamish Museum’s record of annual mileage for the second year running during 2018, completing 7,825 miles in total.
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