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Category Archives: Beamish Tramway
A busy year for Beamish
The tramway at Beamish enjoyed a very busy 2017 with 27,550 miles covered – a figure made all the more impressive by the fact that only five trams were operational at some point in the year, including Blackpool 147 which … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Loan Trams: Blackpool Pantograph 167
And we end this series with the 26th different tram to have left its usual home for an operating loan – Blackpool Pantograph 167. As with Marton Box 31 which started off this series this is a tram which has … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Loan Trams: Birkenhead 20
Another tram which has been loaned to two different tramways is Birkenhead 20 which has left its home town for both Beamish and Blackpool.
British Trams Online at 15 – Loan Trams: Blackpool Standard 147
Beamish features once again as we continue our look at the trams which have operated on loan over the past 15 years. This time Beamish were the recipient as Blackpool Standard 147 visited for the best part of a year … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Loan Trams: Oporto 196
Throughout this series we have seen several trams which have made the trip from Heaton Park to Beamish but in this edition we feature a tram which made the opposite move – Oporto 196.
British Trams Online at 15 – Loan Trams: Blackpool Railcoach 280/680
The only tram in this series to have enjoyed two loan spells with two different identities is Blackpool Ex-Towing Railcoach 280/680.
British Trams Online at 15 – Events: Beamish Tramway 40th Anniversary
Its another anniversary which we feature today, this time we head north east to Beamish at a time when the museum tramway was celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2013.
British Trams Online at 15 – Loan Trams: Blackpool Marton VAMBAC 11
Last time out we looked at one VAMBAC operated tram which had run on loan at Beamish, but Coronation 304 was not the first as that honour had fallen to Marton VAMBAC 11 which had visited from the East Anglia … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Loan Trams: Blackpool Coronation 304
In the autumn of 2012 one of the popular Coronation Cars from Blackpool went on loan to Beamish for a short period having been made homeless a few weeks previously when it was moved away from Rigby Road Depot because … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Leeds 6
It was the loan which went on a lot longer than had been originally thought as Leeds 6 made the trip from the Heaton Park Tramway to Beamish.
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Manchester 765
Another tram which has enjoyed loan periods at two separate tramways over the past 15 years is Manchester 765, a tram which usually resides in its home city at the Heaton Park Tramway but has also been seen in Blackpool … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Newcastle 114
A lot of this series has been of trams from Crich heading off to other locations on loan but there hasn’t been a huge amount of traffic in the opposite direction, indeed the only trams to visit Crich did so … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Lisbon 730
There are three operational Portuguese trams in the UK and all three of them have been loaned at some point in the past 15 years. We have already seen Oporto 273’s aborted loan to Blackpool but this time we take … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Sheffield 513
It’s another two tramway loan tram today, although this tram hasn’t actually been to its home tramway throughout the history of British Trams Online! During the past 15 years it has been in both Blackpool and now at the East … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Cardiff 131
Probably the most unusual tram to be loaned over the past 15 years is Cardiff 131 – and its left its usual home at Crich twice!
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Manchester L53
It is a tram which is currently on static display in Bury but head back a few years and it made not one, but two visits to Beamish – it is Manchester Eades Reversible Horse Tram L53.
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Glasgow 1068
2013 was a significant year for the tramway at Beamish, as it was the 40th anniversary of the first trams running. To mark the occasion a couple of trams were loaned to the museum one of which was Glasgow 1068 … Continue reading
British Trams Online at 15 – Tram Loans: Blackpool Marton 31
Just how many trams have gone on loan over the past 15 years? Actually its quite a surprising number! In this new series we will be looking at all the trams which have gone on operating loans during this period … Continue reading
TLC for trams at Beamish
2017 has been a difficult years for some of the UK’s heritage tramways – and the line at Beamish Museum has been no different, with an operating pool of just four trams available for service since the return of Blackpool … Continue reading
Picture in Time: Sheffield 264 (1)
A trip to Beamish is on the cards for today’s instalment of Picture in Time as we feature a tram which at this time was an open topper numbered 1 but it better known as Sheffield 264.