MEMORIES of the Age of Steam will come flooding back at a County Durham museum this month.
Beamish Museum will be having its own celebration of steam over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Two working replicas of 19th Century road carriages will be on display at the museum's newest exhibit, The 1825 Railway.
Visitors can take a ride on a recreation of the first ever steam-hauled passenger train, headed by Stephenson's Locomotion No 1.
A replica of Walter Hancock's 1833 steam road carriage, Enterprise, will also be on display near the Giant Engine Shed.
Hancock was one of the founding fathers of the railway and among the most successful steam road carriage engineers of the 19th Century.
Another Beamish exhibit on display is the replica of steam pioneer Richard Trevithick's London Steam Carriage.
The original, built in 1803, could carry ten passengers and a number of trial runs, complete with erratic steering, were made through the streets of the capital at speeds of eight or nine mph. These weird and wonderful machines are on display, from Friday to Monday, August 25 to 28.
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