Beamish 8/9/2012 inc. Grimsby & Immingham 26

[Rlangham]

After the Tanfield I went into Beamish for a couple of hours (it's on the way home, so why not?), Tanfield's Armstrong Whitworth No 2 Diesel was on railway duties at the town together with North Eastern Railway bogie composite - numbered 818 but is actually 1903 built 3071. Finally got to see and ride behind the 'Steam Elephant' on the 1825 Pockerley Waggonway too, and timed finishing there perfectly to get a trip on newly repainted Grimsby & Immingham Tram 26 in British Railways colours, after 40 years of portraying it's original role as Gateshead 10



Armstrong Whitworth No 2 of 1933





View from the inside of one of the Third Class Smoking Compartments



Even the ashtrays are NER stamped!



Simplex painted as ex-LNER 15097



Armstrong Whitworth No 14 of 1933



...Together with the Duke of Sutherland's Highland Railway carriage of 1909, brought back from Canada with the 0-4-4T under restoration at the Severn Valley Railway









'Steam Elephant' of 1815



Trying to be 'arty' with one of the windows in a lineside cabin





Hetton Colliery locomotive



'Locomotion'



Grimsby & Immingham No 26











View down into the Colliery showing 'Malleable' of unknown date (believed circa 1900) with 'Newcastle' of 1901

[52D]

Love Ware on the Bufferbeam of the Petrol shunter thats where the Kelso loco ended up, Ware in Hertfordshire.
P.S. Tram is looking very good.

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

That little Armstrong Whitworth 0-4-0 on the coach has a certain charm to it!

Cracking piccies, many thanks.

[marksouthcoast]

They are great photos,thanks for sharing.

[M Gair]

Thanks for the photos.

My wife and I were there May 2011 and we thoroughly enjoyed our day. My wife is in a similar tourist operator with a Gold mine and Trams here in Bendigo Australia, so was high on our list to do. The only thing was that the railway was not running, though Locomotion was being fired.

Thanks
Mark in OZ

[Rlangham]

It seems the 1913 railway is only operating on summer weekends, although i'm sure that last year the plan was to operate it during weekdays during summer and every weekend year round, could have changed though. I love the 1913 station area, very characterful even with nothing operating, and it's great that there's currently a lot of investment and development being put in to both the 1913 Town and Pit Village railways with new locomotives and plans.

The Armstrong Whitworth diesel is lovely - and it's only ten years difference between it and the Y7 985!