Beamish Museum: Buses

Buses at Beamish Museum.

Replicas

J 2007

English: J 2007 is a replica old style single-decker, but features a wheelchair lift at the rear for full accessibility, with space for up to four wheelchairs inside. Based on a modern Iveco truck chassis, it was built for the museum by Severn Lamb Ltd in 2007. Intended to resemble a type used by Northern General in 1913 (a Daimler D type?), it's been finished in a white/red/maroon livery, with 'Beamish Tramway' fleetnames. The registration J 2007 was chosen to resemble the style of plate issued in County Durham (which used the letter J in 1913), with 2007 representing when it first entered service.

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  Westbound on town main street
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Southbound, tram depot
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Eastbound at the entrance
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Eastbound at the entrance
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  Eastbound at the entrance (loading)
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  Eastbound at the entrance (loading)

DET 720D

English: DET 720D is a replica B-type London bus, which were originally built and used by the London General Omnibus Company, from 1910. It's been finished in LGOC's red & white livery complete with General fleetname and fleetnumber B1349.

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  Parked up in town main street
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  Loading outside the Chapel, westbound on Pitfield Street (Pit Village)
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  Loading outside the Chapel, westbound on Pitfield Street (Pit Village)
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Parked up facing east on town main street
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  Pockerley, northbound
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  Eastbound on Pitfield Street (Pit Village)
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Eastbound at the entrance
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  Southbound, approaching Foulbridge crossing
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  Eastbound on town main street
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Southbound, Home Farm tram stop
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  Eastbound on town main street
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Southbound, Home Farm tram stop
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  Entering the Colliery from Pitfield Street
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  Pockerley, northbound
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  Turning in the Colliery yard

J 2503

English: J 2503 is a replica old style double-decker. It was built in 1988 using a Dodge truck chassis, Perkins engine, crash gearbox and authentic pedal layout. It's meant to be a 1913 Daimler CC, and was constructed using drawings of the originals that were used by Northern General when they started services in 1913 between Low Fell and Chester-le-Street. It can be fitted with either pneumatic tyres (twinned on the rear axle), or authentic solid rubber single tyres.

Beamish Tramways Motor Service

English: J 2503 was first turned out in a maroon and white livery with Beamish Tramways Motor Service fleetnames.

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  Southbound on town main street curve
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  Westbound on Pitfield Street (Pit Village)
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  Southbound, Home Farm tram stop
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  Northbound, Home Farm tram stop
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  Northbound, Home Farm tram stop

Northern (#CC-297)

English: J 2503 has since been repainted allover maroon (in a different shade), with Northern fleetname, and fleetnumber CC-297.

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  Eastbound on town main street
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  Eastbound on town main street
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  Westbound on Pitfield Street (Pit Village)
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  Parked up facing west on Pitfield Street (Pit Village)

Preserved

UP 551

• No. 338 (UP 551) is a 1928 SOS QL type ("Queen"-class, Low). It was new to Northern General, who withdrew it in 1948. After further use as a caravan at Bardon Mill, it was brought to Beamish in the 1970s, and restored over a period of 20 years.

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  Parked up outside the tram depot front doors
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  Westbound on town main street
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  Westbound on town main street

LTN 501

• No. 501 (LTN 501) is a 1948 Northern Coach Builders timber frame bodied Sunbeam S7 tri-axle trolleybus. It was new to Newcastle Corporation Transport, who operated it until 1965. It passed to Newcastle Museum of Science and Engineering, before passing to Beamish in 1974, who restored it.

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  coach park (Entrance area)
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  coach park (Entrance area)
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  Outside the tram depot

Other

LVK 123

• The Ex-Newcastle Corporation bus 123 (PD2 LVK), stored in the 1970s for Tyne & Wear County Council Museums.

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Incidental

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  Westbound on town main street
  J 2007
  5 June 2012
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  J 2007
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  J 2007
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  On town main street, southbound
  DET 720D
  26 May 2009
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  DET 720D
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  DET 720D
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  DET 720D
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  DET 720D
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  DET 720D
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  DET 720D
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  On town main street, viewed from the east)
  J 2503?
  4 August 2007

With trams

See Beamish Museum: Trams