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We had a dinner invitation from Angela, who lives near Durham, so we combined that with a day at the Beamish Open Air Museum, which is conveniently close. My Beamish pictures are spread out over a number of pages, with this page covering the transport infrastructure which enables visitors to get around the museum site easily.
The Beamish site is laid out with a mile-circumference tramway as its artery, with trams going both clockwise and anti-clockwise. The various parts of the site are close to tram stops (and in some cases, bus stops as well) and most visitors probably hop on and off the trams and buses to get from one part of the site to another, although we did walk across the diameter of the site when we went from the Home Farm via the Colliery Village to the Pockerley Waggonway.
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On the day of our visit, two trams were running - one in each direction. Here the two trams are at a passing place by the tram stop for the Home Farm and the Colliery Village. (There are pictures later on from both those places.) |
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Here are close-ups of two different drivers of the open-topped tram. |
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We didn't ride on the bus. Unlike the trams, which are restored, the bus is a copy. We saw it at the Colliery Village, and had we chosen to go from the Colliery Village to the Township, we could have caught it, but we nipped through the woods to the Pockerley Waggonway and missed out on a chance to ride on the bus. |
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We didn't get time to visit the picnic area and its nearby fairground, where it was possible to ride round and round in circles on the merry-go-round, but we did catch a view of it from the vantage point of our tram. |
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More from our October 2007 holiday in Yorkshire and North East England: Beamish Home Farm Old machinery and rare breeds
Back to Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden Cistercian abbey ruins and Georgian water garden
Autumn Holiday in Yorkshire & County Durham - October, 2007 - Details Index
Autumn Holiday in Yorkshire & County Durham - October, 2007 - Index Page
Places Links - North East England Index
Last Revised: 25th August, 2008.
