Welcome to the Great North Steam Fair at Beamish
we're running the event from 11th to 14th April
Regular visitors will be familiar with the usual
sort of 20 traction engines, 100 vintage and veteran vehicles
motorbikes, bicycles, running around the museum's 2 mile loop of road
Additional key features this year, we've got two 2 visiting trams
Blackpool and Fleetwood 40 from the National Tramway Museum
we've got Manchester 765 from the Heaton Park Tramway
They'll both be running along with 2 of the home fleet trams, of which we have a choice of 4 at the moment.
There'll be plenty of variety for regular visitors.
As well as that the Colliery Railways will be running
both standard and narrow gauge railways
An extra feature for this year down in the Colliery is that we have a 15 inch gauge railway
with these engines here, River Irt and Katie from the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
and the Ravenglass and Eskdale Museum
River Irt and Katie will give visitors the chance to have a short ride behind them in the Colliery area
which will give visitors a new vantage point of the Pit Village
so we're opening up another area to visitors which they haven't been able to do before
The Waggonway will be running over at Pockerley
Rowley Station will be in operation with Peckett 2000
In the Pit Village, in the school yard, the Friends of Beamish will have a display of
bikes, motorbikes, penny farthings, bone shakers, pushbikes, along with the vintage and veteran vehicles
that are not running around the museum in the school yard for people to have a close look at
There's the model tramway exhibition in the Collections Study Room
If visitors get off at Foulbridge tram stop it's a short walk along the path to the Study Room
that's full of model tram layouts from the local area.
As with all day time events at Beamish, Unlimited Pass holders are able to enter the museum for free
Non of the extra activities that are going on over the Steam Fair have a charge
it's all included in the Unlimited Pass
