The International Steam Pages


Camborne Trevithick Day, (27th April, 2019)

This is one of a series of pages which I have uploaded to illustrate facets of steam rallies we have attended in the UK. Such events occur all over the country in the summer months, they are easily found by using your favourite search engine and may have anything between a handful of steam engines and hundreds (as at the Great Dorset Steam Fair which could probably be fairly described as having an excess of riches). Click here for the overall index for 2019.


On the last Saturday of April each year, the good people of Camborne come together to have a giant street party to celebrate the town's most famous son, Richard Trevithick. Naturally steam engines are the centre piece and after being on show during the day, they parade round the town in the afternoon. 

It was the least memorable of our three visits, not because of deficiencies in organisation but because the strong, cold winds severely curtailed the street entertainment and reduced the crowds to a fraction of normal. It was a shame because a huge amount of work goes into the preparation. For the photographer, the sun made only the briefest of appearances until around the time of the steam engine parade, not that I was over concerned as a core of engines appear each year and I had done very well in 2017 and 2018. It could have been worse because both the Friday and the Sunday were overcast with some rain. This year's programme listed some 29 engines, of these 6 were not present, but there were 3 'extras'.

Fortunately, I believe none of the photographs of the 'repeat' attendees below duplicate those used before and amazingly all bar the 'Puffing Devil' brought their own portable sun to shine at just the right time. It will be a hard act to follow next time we go as photographic locations are very limited.

Steam Rollers

Maker

Number

Registration

Notes

 
Aveling and Porter 6692/1908 WD 3284 SteamScenes Link 
Strumpshaw Rally 2016 Picture 
Old Warden Rally 2016 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture  
Trevthick Day 2018 Picture  
Torbay Rally 2018 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture 
 
Aveling and Porter 9008/1919 BH 7167

"George" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Torbay Rally 2014 Picture 
Old Warden Rally 2014 Picture 
Torbay Rally 2015 Picture 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Trevthick Day 2018 Picture  

 
Aveling and Porter 9128/1920 E 5336 "Major" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2018 Picture  
 
Aveling and Porter 10594/1923 YA 6375 "Hercules" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2018 Picture  
 
Breda  5031/1932 "Fransesca" 
Steam Scenes Link (no link) 
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Fowler
19205/1930
AAF 130
Steam Scenes Link 
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Fowler 22596/1937 EJ 5535 "Evening Star" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture
 
Marshall 81119/1926 SF 5348 "Joan" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture 
Trevithick Day 2018 Picture 
 
Marshall 88097/1937 DAF 499 "Toby" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Torbay Rally 2015 Picture 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture 
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture 
Torbay Rally 2018 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Wallis and Steevens 7878/1926 HO 6482
Steam Scenes Link 
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture  
Trevithick Day 2018 Picture 
Welland Rally 2019 Picture 

General Engines

 
Aveling and Porter5541/1904PP 581"Bo-Peep"
Steam Scenes Link  
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Aveling and Porter7271/1911D 5883Steam Scenes Link  
Fawley Hill Rally 2014 Picture 
Strawberries and Steam Rally 2014 Picture 
Woodcote Rally 2014 Picture 
South Cerney Rally 2014 Picture 
South Cerney Rally 2015 Picture 
Fawley Hill Rally 2016 Picture 
Welland Rally 2016 Picture 
South Cerney Rally 2016 Picture 
Trevithick Day 2017 Picture 
Welland Rally 2017 Picture 
Speech House Show 2017 Picture 
Welland Rally 2018 Picture 
South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture
Speech House Show 2018 Picture 
Welland Rally 2019 Picture 
South Cerney Rally 2019 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Aveling and Porter9096/1920AF 6001 "Jubilee"
SteamScenes Link  
Old Warden Rally 2013 Picture  
Fawley Hill Rally 2014 Picture  
Old Warden Rally 2014 Picture 
South Cerney Rally 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Burrell 3816/1919 AF 3518 "Cornish Maid" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Torbay Rally 2014 Picture 
Torbay Rally 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture  
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture
Torbay Rally 2018 Picture 
Abbey Hill Rally 2019 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Burrell 3937/1922 SU 1212 "Janet" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture 
Trevithick Day 2017 Picture 
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Foster 14608/1930 PN 5629 "Ikanopit" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Shrewsbury Rally 2014 Picture 
Tinkers Park 2015 Rally Picture 
Hollowell Rally 2016 Picture 
Rempstone Rally 2016 Picture 
Welland Rally 2016 Picture 
Shrewsbury Rally 2016 Picture 
Hollowell Rally 2017 Picture 
Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture 
Shrewsbury Rally 2018 Picture 
Klondyke Mill Party 2021 Picture  
 
McLaren 1534/1917 BS 9066 Steam Scenes Link 
Welland Rally 2014 Picture 
Welland Rally 2015 Picture 
Shrewsbury Rally 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture 
Welland Rally 2017 Picture 
South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture 
Old Warden Rally 2018 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture 
 
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies 38088/1927 DO 6883 Steam Scenes Link 
Welland Rally 2015 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2018 Picture
 
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies 42013/1931 TL 1974 "Sister Wendy" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2018 Picture  
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 

Showman's Engine

 
Burrell 3159/1909 CO 3823 "The Gladiator" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Torbay Fair 2014 Picture 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture 
Old Warden Rally 2016 Picture 
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture 
Torbay Rally 2018 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture 
Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture 

Ploughing Engines

 
Fowler 15163/1918 WR 7151 Steam Scenes Link 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture 
 
Fowler

15529/1921

UA 1876 / EJW 510

Steam Scenes Link 
Abbey Hill Rally 2014 Picture 
Somerset Show 2017 Picture 
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture 
SPC Great Challenge 2018 Picture 

Wagon

 
Foden 10530/1921 TA 1216 "Pride of the West" 
Steam Scenes Link 
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 
Abbey Hill Rally 2019 Picture 

Portable Engine

 
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies 26915/1907 Trevthick Day 2017 Picture  
Cornish Fair 2017 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2018 Picture
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture 

Steam Car

 
White  Whistling Billy, replica of 1905 racer.
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture 

Replica Trevithick Engine

 
 
2001 built replica of Richard Trevithick's 1801 pioneering road engine "Puffing Devil", in the care of the Trevithick Society. The original was destroyed while the engineer and his mate adjourned to an inn after hitting the equivalent of a large pothole...
Cornish Fair 2015 Picture  
Trevthick Day 2017 Picture 
Trevthick Day 2018 Picture 

If you like this sort of thing then try David Collidge's Steam Scenes http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/


Rob and Yuehong  Dickinson

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