Beamish Railway photographs, October 2011

[Rlangham]

Photographs from back in October, hope they are of interest;



Y7 985 in LNER markings getting ready at the start of the day - a great little locomotive and perfect for the Beamish operation









Hetton Colliery locomotive in the must-see Pockerley Waggonway engine shed



Puffing Billy replica





Locomotion replica



Engine shed, with Steam Elephant replica and Locomotion replica



Malleable



Non-working 'Coffee Pot', formerly in the Darlington Railway Museum



Working Seaham Colliery 'Coffee Pot'



1916 Baguley/McEwann & Pratt 'Jacob' petrol mechanical, shortly before leaving Beamish - for more information on the world's oldest petrol standard gauge locomotive, see my blog post on it here - http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com ... otive.html

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

What a pity the "coffee pot" wasn't in steam. I have seen a De Winton in steam - quite the strangest thing I've ever seen on rails!

[Rlangham]

I keep an eye on the Beamish facebook and flickr page for photos and other updates and always seem to narrowly miss the more unusual vehicles in operation - there was a 1918 tractor in operation a while ago which looked great. That said, I was taking part in an early WW1 recruitment living history event there in October a week after these photographs were taken, we were all lined up in the main street when a steam roller came chugging towards us, so we had to get out of the way sharpish to avoid re-enacting this scene from the 1905 film 'An Interesting Story' (1905)