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A steamy weekend

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Scuba1:
Just a few more for you.














ATB

Michael

andyf:
Smashing pictures, Michael.

When I last attended the steam fair at Chelford up here in Cheshire, they had a traction engine tug-of-war, which was good fun. That was some years ago, though, and the H & S busybodies or the event's insurers may have barred it since then.

Andy

Scuba1:
Thank you folks for the kind words. It was a great day out and even without any pulling competitions and such things, you just did not know where to look first as there were steam engines of all shapes and sizes running about all over the place, so if you are at all interested in things that smoke and boil, go there next year, it is well worth it and you can buy cheap bits of material from ally to brass and used lathe tooling etc there in the numerous stalls that folks set up as well. I went home with a few bits and pieces that I did not think I would end up with when I fell out of bed that morning.

 :wave:

Michael

Stilldrillin:
Thanks Michael!  :thumbup:

Not been to a steamshow, for too many years.  ::)

I remember the tug o war....... And the aaahh moment, when a little boy trotted out to help.....

David D

andyf:
 :offtopic: The June 24/25 2012 Chelford rally is advertised as being "1000 Engines"  :bugeye: David, so it might be worth a Transpennine trek. I don't suppose they are all full size, though.

When I worked in Wilmslow, I used to see plenty of traction engines chugging past the office window on their way to Chelford.

Andy

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