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Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, [2] located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. [ 3 ] By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch ...
Beamish museum; Darlington Railway Centre and Museum (Recently renamed: Head of Steam) Hopetown Carriage Works; Locomotion Museum, Shildon, (free entry) Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Sunderland; Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields
The museum's restored North Eastern Railway coach was moved to the Tanfield Railway, also nearby, but it returned to Beamish in 2012 for restoration and use. LNER 68088 at Beamish, 2011 Resident locomotives include NER Class C1 freight engine No. 876 (British Railways Class J21 No. 65033), built at Gateshead in 1889.
Dr Frank Atkinson CBE (13 April 1924 – 30 December 2014) was a British museum director and curator. Atkinson is best known for creating the Beamish Museum near Stanley, County Durham, an open-air 'living' museum on the history of the north of England with a focus on the changes brought to both urban and rural life by the industrialisation of the early 20th century.
Multi-operator travel tickets are offered by Network One. A Network One travel ticket allows for unlimited travel on most buses, rail, Metro and the Shields Ferry, within the Tyne and Wear area. Tickets are zonal, with the area being split into five numbered zones, and are available as DayRover (one day), week, four week and annual. [44] [45]
Steam Elephant was recreated by Beamish Museum to work with passengers on its standard gauge "Pockerley Waggonway" in 2002, being assembled by Alan Keef. The replica was designed and built by engineers Ross Clavell, Jim Rees and Dave Potter, finished in 1998. Clavell also designed and built the famous weather vane atop the engine shed at Beamish.
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Entry to the museum is free; rides on the trains requires purchase of a ticket. [6] The museum building also contains a gift shop and toilet facilities, and a cafe which opens on certain event days. [7] The cafe was renovated in Autumn 2017. [8] The museum is only open at certain times of the year, and passenger trains are only run on some of ...