British Trams Online - Gallery 290: Beamish Great North Steam Fair 2012

Last Updated Sunday 22nd April 2012

Gallery 290: Beamish Great North Steam Fair 2012

The annual Great North Steam Fair at Beamish, the Living Museum of the North took place between 12th and 15th April with the usual mix of visiting vintage vehicles alongside the resident fleet. For the tram enthusiast this year there were several highlights with the visit of Birkenhead 20 from the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society, the debut of Blackpool Boat 233 following its loan from the Lancastrian Transport Trust and British Trams Online sponsored repaint and the use of Sunderland 101 (Blackpool Balloon 703) in service. Of course the event is not just about the trams and there was plenty of other action around Beamish including the use of Captain Baxter on the Rowley railway, Beamish's own Newcastle Trolleybus 501 on display having returned from its holidays and many other steam vehicles in operation around the site. This gallery mainly features photos of the trams from both the first day of the event (Thursday 12th) and day three (Saturday 14th) but we also show you the other sights of the event so you can get the full flavour of what happens at one of Beamish's transport events. Hopefully if you haven't been to one of these events before these photos will make you keen to visit soon! To access the photos click on the relevant thumbnail and you can then either navigate from there or return to this page and click on your next one!

Photographs in this gallery were taken by Gareth Prior on 12th April 2012 & Tony Waddington on 14th April 2012.

Birkenhead 20 & Sunderland 101	Birkenhead 20 & Newcastle Trolleybus 501	Blackpool Marton Box 31	Leeds 6
Town	Sunderland 101	Birkenhead 20	Birkenhead 20
Providence & Scammell Tractor	Newcastle Trolleybus 501	Blackpool Boat 233	Beamish 196
Blackpool Marton Box 31	Captain Baxter	Rambler	985
Town	Fire Engine	Leeds 6	Perseverance
Sunderland 101	Ayesha	Birkenhead 20	Leeds 6
Sunderland 101	Blackpool Marton Box 31	Leeds 6	Baguley Petrol Locomotive & Newcastle
Narrow Gauge Railway	Colliery	Newcastle	Sunderland 101
Sunderland 101 & Steam	Birkenhead 20	Birkenhead 20 & Sentinel	Bus & Sentinel
Blackpool Boat 233	Blackpool Boat 233	Sunderland 101	Blackpool Boat 233 & Steam Crane
Blackpool Boat 233	Blackpool Boat 233	Blackpool Boat 233	Blackpool Marton Box 31
Newcastle Trolleybus 501 & Yorkshire Tiger Bus	Blackpool Boat 233	Colliery	Blackpool Marton Box 31
Blackpool Boat 233	Blackpool Boat 233 & Bus	Blackpool Boat 233	Blackpool Boat 233
Birkenhead 20	Leeds 6	Sunderland 101	Birkenhead 20
Yorkshire Tiger Bus	Steam Crane	Birkenhead 20	Leeds 6 & Newcastle Trolleybus 501
Tram Depot	Sunderland 101	Blackpool Boat 233	Newcastle 114
Birkenhead 20	Birkenhead 20	Yorkshire Tiger Bus	Blackpool Boat 233 & Steam
Sunderland 101	Captain Baxter	Captain Baxter	Captain Baxter
Newcastle 114	Sunderland 101	Blackpool Boat 233

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