 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Beamish today. There's a church over there That's one of the many different things you can see here That's the Polkery wagon way over there Which I had a trip earlier on behind a replica of puffing Billy, which we'll probably see just up here So I came here today for the eastern block car rally, which if you have a look at the link on screen now That was the video I recently posted. I've spent the whole day exploring the museum So now I'm just going to do a video to show you some of the best things there is to see here at Beamish I cannot possibly show you everything because there really is so much to see but I will show you Some of the more interesting things so Railway wise there is three railways or three standard gauge rail I should have say and a tramway, but the only one running today is this one the Polkery wagon way which We I had a trip on earlier as I said here is the shed and Over there is the replica of the puffing Billy, so we're going to go and have a look at that It looks like it has finished running for the day So I'll make my way across the yard be able to show you a train from a very very different era to what we used to today, so have a look at See next to these lumps of coal look at that Something very different so that that was a good loco to ride behind it was my first winning steam loco of 2020 only my second winning loco of 2020 my last Loco I had was at Hailing Island for that was my only other winning loco so far So I'm gonna see the one I had at Hailing Island have a look at another link on screen now, but there we are How's that for a train something very different? That was first machine. That was the first class Brampton, which is the second or third class It was fun for the short little trip. So what I'm going to do now and I'll show you a few other things As there is like I said is so much. I'm cannot possibly show you everything and we go around here It's quite interesting. We can have a look at some examples of rolling stock Here's some wagons and what we're going to do we'll go in there because they are some interesting things there So I'm just going to have to stop a moment while I put my face covering on to go inside There we go Obviously you can't smell it, but there's a really nice smell of burning coal. So have a look in here Here is another interesting Engine says that's where the puffing billy replica will go when she's finished running for today Here we have stationery engine There's a little office here Looks like a model of the steam elephant. I think So what I'm gonna do now. I'm gonna go back out of here and I'll show you a few other things around the site That was very interesting They have now shut the yard up because I think they're putting the train place so perhaps we'll see the train I made a separate video so if you have a look at the link on screen now, you can see that video So I think the train has gone off now They might be putting it they are going to be put in the way, but I think time's running out So I'm gonna have to have a look around the site. So I'm gonna go now and show you a bit more around Beamish This is one of the many tram stops at Beamish So the tramway forms a circular running all the way around the site and they're not running today Which I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed I am you know I'm there might be a good reason why they're not running and with all the social distancing and the pandemic Although they were running buses. So yeah Don't like to be negative in my videos I can't really not say I'm not disappointed. I'm yeah quite disappointed the trams aren't running But anyway, no doubt I'll probably come here again So you know and I have had a ride on the wagon way. So that was good fun So, you know, it's been a really good day But riding a tram would have just like made it a perfect day. So yeah, so the tramway goes up there I'm not gonna walk all around here because the said trams not running so You know, let's take you through the woods It's pretty hot data as well. So Nice to walk through the woods. We're gonna go and have a look at the colliery and then we'll walk through And my aim is basically to take you through the site back to the car and I think probably what I'll do in the future. I'll come here again Maybe another time I'll make videos just on the tramway And maybe I'll just make a lot of footage without me talking I have to see really When I next come up here, but you know, it's been somewhere that's been on my list now for so long I've always wanted to come here And so here I am I'm finally here and it was it was really nice to display My larder here today have all the public Seeing it and everything's seeing all the other cars. So it was nice to see such Interest taken, you know in the eastern block car. So that's been a really nice thing of today But I said a bit disappointed tram's not running But anyway, I won't keep going on about that because you know Let's just focus on what we have got. So this is the colliery Now anyone you could walk around here. You could go up there. It looks like um Can't complain this time. They've closed it because like I said, most people have gone. Um This is the end of the day. I couldn't really have made a video earlier today. It was so busy, which is good. Good to see it's busy, but um It wouldn't really work to have made videos But you could go up there so you can see the pit head gear So they're big steam engine in that building there. That's where the shaft would have been And then there's a This bridge would have carried the wagons out across there. So that's quite interesting and down here So this is the second railway of the day. We've seen the wagon way It's second and third technique there's some system of two foot narrow gauge and as you can see there's a Armoured diesel loco there. We're now going to walk across the standard gauge railway lines And um, there is another steam loco I can show you and if the engine showed up there, there's quite a few steam loco's which I did go in earlier So um, if we can't go in then now, it won't matter because I'll just have I'll just put some pictures If I if I can go in there, we will Let's let's see So this is the colliery village or colliery. Technically it's just down there. Um, there's also the town So there you are as an industrial steam loco This whole area reminds me Last time I went to a colliery like this was Barnovicci in Bosnia Herzegovina And that was great seeing Kriegslock pulling out the colliery with a long long train. Um So Yeah, that was the last time I came anywhere like this So in that shed there, there are steam loco's what I'm going to do because they've closed I shall insert some pictures now So there you are. There's some of the steam loco's We're now going to walk through the colliery village and I'll show you a few things Along there then we're going to head up towards the town. Hopefully we also look at the other railway station That wasn't running there's um There's a Methodist church If you want to see inside here's some pictures So here you go that was the Inside of the Methodist church these cottages are nice for their cottage gardens So I'm going to follow The road up here This is the Demesh school So again I um Need to go into school earlier on so Here's a picture of a classroom in the school So there you go. There's a picture of the classroom in the school So yeah school is there So the tramway Which circumnavigates the site It runs Around there they were running buses I did have a trip on the bus Well they only went halfway around the site because when he got there he said oh we're terminating And I said can I have a ride back down to the town because he was going to pick another lot and he said no which um Seemed a bit unreasonable. Anyway, I don't know why maybe had a good reason but There's another little narrow gator out there In the middle of the site though there appears to be like another functioning farm That's kind of not part of the site which is um So it's an interesting place because it's a very vast area Um and like I said Because of the pandemic not everything's open. I think as times gradually get back to normal. I'd like to think, you know, um It will go Completely back to normal and we will be able to have tram rides. I don't think all the railways possibly ever did run on one day um So this is the colliery railway The sand the ghost line comes to just down here. So this one doesn't ever do passenger rides There's no station. It's whenever it does run purely demonstrational So I can't complain about not having a ride on that one It's interesting. I don't know if you can see it, but down there they appear to have laid some two foot narrow gauge In the middle of the standard gauge track. I did as I said in the onion shed On the low because we saw it was a two foot narrow gauge. So as we come up here Up there is the home farm. So you get to see how farm used to look That way we'll take you back to the main entrance. I never actually saw the main entrance because I came with the eastern block club club. So, um You know, I didn't get a chance to see that So there's a bus stop here. So some people waiting to get a bus To get home or get back to the car. But it might be because it's the end of the day They're using the buses to get everyone out. So they don't really want um You know to take people in If you look here, there's a sign says tram run each direction every 20 minutes Not today. They didn't but this is the passing loop here. So I suppose the tram would come stop here Tram will come the other way And they would pass each other so um Yeah, we have to come back here when they're running the trams um, because to me the trams The trams are the most interesting feature they have here. This is the tram depot um Which we can't really see much of so I'm not going to Sorry since the point of view is but I'm we're not going to go any closer to that because You can just glance in the door and you might You can see I've got the numbers of a couple of the trams but It's not quite So interesting when you can't receive but we can go in here into the bus garage And these buses are really nice Be nice. Um, again, it's probably because of covid so I can't complain too much but On a hot day like today having a ride around the site upstairs on On one of those open top buses that would be really really nice Maybe another time I'm sure you know Things will get back to normal and um, we'll be able to come to places like this again So I'm going to head down to something just around the corner I would like to show you so I should show that to you and then um My aim is to finish down by the town And then eventually we'll go and find my car. So the tramway goes this way I'm going to walk along this path and it's away and see what else we can find Just up the path from here. We have a couple of interesting things to see We have this huge excavator. It's massive This must have worked at one of the mines around here Pretty hard to convey just how big it is but maybe if I um go to the bucket The excavating bucket I'd stand by it. Have you got any idea now how big this is? It's huge You know, it's just just massive Is that one of the buses? Let's just go and see one of the buses go past There goes a bus gone past There's an ex Darlington bus Now the other thing I was going to show you I don't know too much about it but it's um a locomotive so It's um interesting It's this little thing here little industrial electric locomotive So it's just here on the plant but probably I don't know too much about its history But probably works in a colliery In the area but that's um what cool little thing You can see the pantograph folded down on the top See it says NCB so National Cold Ward It was number two So there's an electric locomotive That's probably the only electric traction we'll see in this video Right, what else have we got around here? Yes, there's a couple of things around here Again, there's something else that's not running but if it was running it would be You know to me as exciting as the trams it'd be pretty amazing Um just go past here Here we have a miniature railway Which unfortunately isn't running it hasn't run for a while again pandemics interferes and Yeah, but if that was running that'd be great and it's not any old miniature railway It has a rack and pinion section which I can't show you because it's right around the corner If we have a look here you can just see that one says Rotherham on the front so as we come down This is Avenue down here This is where the events field is which is where the um Where we're having our rally where all cars are the larders Trabant, etc. It looks like some are starting to go and is the end of the day. So what we'll do If we look over there The sounds I'm going to continue down this avenue I'm going down to come up to the other end of Beemish now. This is the town park. This is the town So what I'm going to do I'm going to show you around a giant gun here show you the town and then Look at the other railway station and then like I said time for me to go So it's it's quite nice at this time of day earlier on it was heaving which was great to see so many people enjoying themselves and I had a there's a pub up here called the sun in I had a pint there Well, you can actually sit inside had a pint and um sat on the bench and that was really enjoyable had to have it quite early in the day though because Driving home. I had to have it at sort of 11 o'clock So it's way out of my system for when I go to drive And this is here we have a whole town Set in the 1930s, which I think is really cool Sweet shops, um I didn't worry about I've won the things I was quite happy to give a miss. I think I can live without some old fashion sweets So yeah co-operative That's why I had a pint It's quite interesting at the very beginning of the day. I had a look in some of these So there was a dentist and there was a solicitor so you can go in the houses So there really is so much to do. I'd almost say I mean personally I have found Too much to do which is not a bad thing at all. It's good There's just so much to see here. I find I need more than a day. Here comes out Darlington bus again two buses So yeah, there's a lot a lot going on and um Today is the day where you know, not everything is open. So I just think if you came here on the day when everything is open I think I would need at least two days And they are also building a whole 1950s town, which is going to have trolley buses. So, you know, that's really exciting But I'm thinking well for me I need another day So I'm going to say when the new town is finished the 1950s sounds finished You're going to need at least three days here today. I've just about seen everything I want to see Um, so I suppose I know I complained a bit earlier about the trams not running If I want to put a positive spin on the fact that the trams weren't running It's given me time to see everything else. So I think if the trams were running, I'd have spent a lot of time trambashing and um I just simply wouldn't have had time to see everything. So Yeah, I suppose it's not all bad. So not everything Was operating. There's also fairground, um, which I I didn't go in. I wouldn't have minded Go on the health scalter. But anyway, I I didn't There's a nice bridge here though. There's a railway line And there Is Rowley station. So sometimes they do rides from this railway station Up another railways. So this is more typical railway of the northeast in steensay. So you get on a train there And it takes you up around the corner goes for about a quarter of a mile, half a mile So that's a that would be quite a nice ride. But um, I think with this one, yeah with social distancing I'm not sure what coaches stop they've got but I understand it's not easy. So that's why that's not running um So I have to come here. I have to come here like lots more times to do all of All these other railways. They've got it. Um, it really is a great place But like I said, you just need a long long time to visit and I've been here since nine o'clock this morning The site opens at 10 to visitors because I was displaying a car. We had to be in By 9 45 um with our cars displayed. So I um, I had it for time as well And I haven't seen anything. So, you know, that that's a good thing that there's that much here to see Um, you know that you need that long anyway, we're going to have a look at the railway station, which is Down here onto the platform. So we're not going to catch a train here, but we can have a look This station building The name has slipped my mind. I'm going to put it on screen now That is where this station came from. It's taken down brick by brick and rebuilt here There we have the good yard And um, yeah, that's looking looking up the hill, which um, when trains are running you get to ride on There's the ticket office I think what I'm going to do though, like I said um, it's the end of the day so I I'm going to um I was going to go out there. They blocked that gate. I was going to go over the bridge I'm going to have to go back out the way I came So I think really now time has come to end this video. So from a railway station Thank you very much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. Do come and visit beamish Although the one thing I'd say if you want a particular To do a particular thing say like the tramway, perhaps check They're running. Um, I mean I came for the eastern block car running So I was going to come the matter watch running But yeah, if you do want to do the trams or a particular railway get a particular local It might just be worth ringing them and seeing if they can tell you first before making the trip That's the only thing I would say other than that. I really have had a great day. Um, and there's really so much to see So thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment from roley station at beamish. Thank you very much. Goodbye