Steam Elephant at the Pockerley Waggonway, Beamish museum

Replica of Steam Elephant locomotive of 1815, Pockerley Waggonway, Beamish museum.

Beamish has its own railway, the Pockerley Waggonway, comprising an engine shed from 1825 and a short length of track. Two replica steam locomotives run on the railway, one of George Stephenson's Locomotion No 1 of 1825 and one of William Chapman's The Steam Elephant of 1815. The original Locomotion No 1 headed the first public, passenger-carrying, steam train in the world — on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. Visitors to the museum can ride in the unsprung carriages.