Beamish Museum

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1258) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. The tram in the background is Sheffield car 264 originally new in 1907. The bus represents a Newcastle-upon-Tyne vehicle painted blue. It originally carried London General red livery in the style of a ‘B’ type.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1258) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. The tram in the background is Sheffield car 264 originally new in 1907. The bus represents a Newcastle-upon-Tyne vehicle painted blue. It originally carried London General red livery in the style of a ‘B’ type.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1258) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. The tram in the background is Sheffield car 264 originally new in 1907. The bus represents a Newcastle-upon-Tyne vehicle painted blue. It originally carried London General red livery in the style of a ‘B’ type.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1500) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. This bus, which originally carried London General red livery in the style of a ‘B’ type, now represents a Newcastle-upon-Tyne vehicle. It was seen outside the school in the Pit Village part of the museum. Many of the buildings at Beamish are the real thing. Brought together from different parts of the north east of England they were carefully dismantled at their original sites and then re-assembled at the museum site.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1532) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. This replica bus represents a Newcastle-upon-Tyne vehicle from the 1910-1920s that featured bench style seating on the open upper decks. Something not included here were such refinements as canvas sheeting which passengers could use to cover their legs and laps on wet days.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1532) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. This replica bus represents a Newcastle-upon-Tyne vehicle from the 1910-1920s that featured bench style seating on the open upper decks. Something not included here were such refinements as canvas sheeting which passengers could use to cover their legs and laps on wet days.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1532) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. The replica bus represents a Newcastle-upon-Tyne vehicle from the 1910-1920s era. This view from the open top upper deck shows the narrow and curved open staircase.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1245) – Sunderland tramcar 16, originally new in 1900, operating at the Beamish Open Air Museum.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1324) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. Sheffield car 264 originally new in 1907 is seen by the ‘Tramway and Omnibus Waiting Room’ in the town area of the museum.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1238) – Trams operating at the Beamish Open Air Museum. Sheffield car 264 originally new in 1907 seen from the upper deck of Sunderland car 16 originally new in 1900.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1215) – Trams operating at the Beamish Open Air Museum. Left is Newcastle-upon-Tyne car 114 originally new in 1901 and right is Sunderland car 16 originally new in 1900.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1336) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. The bus in this photograph represents a Northern General Daimler open-topper. In reality it has a Dodge chassis with Perkins engine and was created in 1988. It has recently been announced that the Museum is to construction a garage to house its buses which will be in the form of a period Northern General bus garage.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1317) – Visitors to Beamish Open Air Museum are able to travel round the site on authentic early 1900s trams or replica old buses. The bus in this photograph represents a Northern General Daimler open-topper. In reality it has a Dodge chassis with Perkins engine and was created in 1988. It has recently been announced that the Museum is to construct a garage to house its buses which will be in the form of a period Northern General bus garage. Note the name on the garage display in the background, ‘T Cowie Ltd’, a name that became involved with bus operation in later years.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1249) – An unusual replica bus operating at the Beamish Open Air Museum. Built in 2007, and based on an Iveco chassis, it is wheelchair accessible through a door at the rear. The radiator badge reads ‘NOEM Motorbus’.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1249) – An unusual replica bus operating at the Beamish Open Air Museum. Built in 2007, and based on an Iveco chassis, it is wheelchair accessible through a door at the rear. The radiator badge reads ‘NOEM Motorbus’.

Saturday 18 June 2016 (1425) – The radiator badge on an unusual replica bus operating at the Beamish Open Air Museum. Built in 2007, and based on an Iveco chassis, it is wheelchair accessible through a door at the rear. The bonnet badge reads ‘NOEM Motorbus’.