Beamish Museum
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TMS marks six decades of operations at Crich museum
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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 a special celebratory weekend on September 21-22. One of the star attractions was the return of 1914-built Blackpool & Fleetwood Electric Tramroad ‘Box’ car No. 40 after its summer loan to…
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Beamish Museum tram fleet line-up in unusual photo shoot
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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’
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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
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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. This figure is greater than the 7,650 miles notched up during 2017, and would have been even higher had the United Electric Car Company car not suffered a motor failure…