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Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, [2] located at Beamish, ... In 2010, the entrance building and tea rooms were refurbished. [4]
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.
Beamish, previously named "Pit Hill", is a village in County Durham, England, situated to the north east of Stanley. The entrance to Beamish Museum The village is contained within Hell Hole Wood and is home to Beamish Museum , an open-air museum seeking to replicate a northern town of the early 20th century.
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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.
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.
The original was displayed in the museum between 1975 and 2021. It was moved to Shildon in that year. [7] A 1975-built replica, previously based at Beamish Museum, has now replaced it in the museum and it is intended for this replica to be restored to working order in time for the 200th anniversary of the S&DR in 2025. [8] [9] No. 25 Derwent: 1845
English: Beamish Museum, County Durham, England.This is narrow gauge 0-4-0ST Hunslet Large Quarry class #996 Edward Sholto, on the Colliery system. Looking north, it's seen here outside the shed which is now located on the west side of the spoil heap, having previously been sited on the southern edge of the yard.