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Gallery 453: Beamish Great North Steam Fair

The annual Great North Steam Fair - part of the Great North Festival of Transport - took place at Beamish: The Living Museum of the North between 10th and 13th April with an excellent mix of vintage transport across the museum site. Obviously with this being British Trams Online the main focus of our attention was the trams with Blackpool 167 and Blackpool 280 both currently on loan at Beamish and these both feature heavily in this collection alongside fellow Blackpool cars 31 and "Sunderland 101", the four of which operated the service on both Friday 11th and Saturday 12th April, the two days on which these photos were taken. But as always with major transport events at Beamish this gallery also shows the other transport around the Museum (in fact its only now writing this introduction that I realise there are more photos of non-trams that trams!) on both the railways and road to give a true flavour why these events are amongst the best transport events in the UK, if not the best!

Photographs in this collection were taken by Gareth Prior

Buses

Sunderland 16

Blackpool 167 & Wallis & Steevens Road Roller

Blackpool 280

Tarmac Sentinel & A J Wakefield Scammell	Fosters of Lincoln Showman	Blackpool 167	Blackpool 280
Sunderland 101	Blackpool 31	Steam locomotive Salmon	Blackpool 167 & Bikes
Steam Locomotive Vulcan	Blackpool 167 & Blackpool 280	Blackpool 31 & Aberdeen Corporation Bus	Blackpool 280 & Blackpool 167
Oporto 196	Albion Van	Blackpool 280 & London General B Type Replica Bus	Sunderland 101 & Tarmac Sentinel
HP Thompson Foden, Isle of Man Highways Foden & Car	Blackpool 167	War Department Albion & E & N Ritchie Ford Model T Van	Denby Maiden & Denby Sentinel
Blackpool 280	C & C Textiles Albion	R.J. & V.A. Harvey Standard Van, Fire Engine & Garrett Showmans Tractor	Steam Locomotive Isabel
Colliery	Colliery	Colliery	Sunderland 101
Blackpool 280	Ayesha & War Department Albion	B M Stafford Scammell	C & C Textiles Albion, Car & Gowler Scammell
Steam Locomotive Salmon	Tarmac Sentinel	Lord Nelson & Advance Steam Roller	Stanley Steam Car, Allchin Road Roller & Isle of Man Highways Foden
Blackpool 167	Blackpool 280 & Marshall General Purpose Engine	Blackpool 167 & Fire Engine	Blackpool 31

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