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This is one of a series of pages I have uploaded to illustrate
facets of the steam rallies around the world, mainly in the UK. Such events occur all over the country in the summer months,
click here for
the Steamfest 2026 index and click here for the
Surviving
Steam Road Engines index.
My thanks to Wilson Lythgoe for making the effort to get a
photograph of every item which was likely to be of interest to visitors to
this website.
Stationary Steam Engine
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Maker
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Number
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Date
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Notes
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Marshall
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76105
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1922
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Built for instructional purposes, it would have used steam from a boiler
or from a
traction or portable engine. Note the flexible pipework, not in use over
the weekend.
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Steam Locomotive (610mm / 2ft gauge)
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Maker
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Number
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Date
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Notes
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Krauss
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5800
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1906
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The Krauss 0-4-0T is basically 5800/1906 which started out on the Zeehan Tramway
running up and down the main street of Zeehan. It then went to the Dunkley Brothers
in Zeehan in 1935 and RJ Howard in 1952. Renison Tin Mines purchased and used
it to 1959. 2-4-0T (5682/1906) operated on the Sandfly Colliery line
at Margate until 1921 then at the Ida Bay Railway to 1946. The boiler
and cab
were then transferred to 5800 at the Second River Tramway in 1972.
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Oil Engine
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Maker
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Number
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Date
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Notes
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Hornsby
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10565
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1897
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The Richard Hornsby & Sons Ltd Patent Oil traction engine is commonly
known
as a Hornsby-Akroyd tractor. There were three built with all coming
to
Australia. Two survive, this one being the older. It spent its working
life
in New South Wales until around 1920 when the crankshaft gave
trouble
and the tractor was abandoned. It then rested in the same place for
around
70 years before being moved under cover. Purchased by Eric &
Coral
Howe in 2008 the tractor is now operational. The stationary version was
commercially more successful.
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Diesel Locomotives (610mm / 2ft gauge)
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Maker
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Number
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Date
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Notes
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Malcolm Moore
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1956
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Two locomotives were purchased from North Queensland in late 2010. Built in 1956
and weighing 12 tons they had been retired from active work in 1994 when
replaced with something bigger.
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Non-working
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Malcolm Moore
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1956
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The MM040 DH Moore GT 112 – DH of 1956 was fitted with a GM 4055 CM engine. Awaits
restoration.
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Ruston
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235667
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1945
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The Ruston, with its unique sloping engine cowling, was built as one of a batch of
two-foot gauge engines for the British Ministry of Supply. It did not see war service
and was reconditioned before being sent to Ruston and Hornsby, Australia, for resale.
It was sold to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, Victoria and used for
water storage construction projects. It was later sold to Cornwall Coal Co, Fingal
Valley in Tasmania. Acquired by the Don River Railway it was subsequently
donated to the Sheffield Steam and Heritage Centre. Awaiting overhaul.
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