With it now being less than a month until the Great North Steam Fair kicks off at Beamish it is very much the lull before the storm – especially with it being outside of school holidays as well – with most days seeing up to a couple of trams in service.
On Tuesday 19th March the weather was warm enough again for the two open-toppers to be the service cars: Blackpool 31 and Newcastle 114. Meanwhile, Oporto 196 was on stand-by stabled outside the depot with Manchester 765 visible resting in the depot alongside the replica London B type bus.
Oporto 196 stabled outside the depot. Beyond the tram work is now well underway on preparing the site for the new bus depot.
And in the existing tram depot the London B type bus takes a day off sitting alongside Manchester 765. (Both Photographs by Trevor Hall, 19th March 2019)