Beamish Museum tram fleet line-up in unusual photo shoot

Beamish Museum laid on an unusual demonstration of its tram fleet on May 3 when all seven of the operating cars, including two visitors, took part in an out-of-hours cavalcade and line-up in the Victorian town. 

The parade was arranged in order to take a new crop of promotional photographs for use in future publicity material.

Also by The Railway Hub:

• Christopher Westcott looks back over the complicated history of London Underground’s District Line, which is celebrating 150 years of operation.

• As the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive in the world at the time, Kestrel promised a motive power revolution… but it turned out to be ‘too good for its own good’!

• 50 years ago, the last regular expresses hauled by pre-Nationalisation express steam engines ended.

The home fleet cars that took part were Newcastle No. 114, Blackpool No. 31, Sheffield No. 264, Oporto No. 196 and Sunderland No. 6, being joined by Blackpool & Fleetwood ‘Box’ No. 40 and Manchester No. 765, which are on loan from Crich and Heaton Park, respectively. 

Read more News and Features in the June 2019 issue of The Railway Magazine – on sale now!