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Fawley Hill Steam Rally (16th - 18th May, 2014)

This is one of a series of pages I have uploaded to illustrate facets of the steam rallies we have attended in the UK in 2013 - 2014. Click here for the 2014 introduction and overall index.


This was no run-of-the-mill event, it was styled as the 70th birthday party for Bill McAlpine's wife Judy. Simply, it was designed as a tribute to traditional British engineering skills although these pages only cover the steam side, naturally. It was a civilised and hugely enjoyable occasion aided by some extraordinarily good weather. We attended on the Sunday when the attendance was such that we took one look at the car park at 15.00 and decided we had to get out into the lanes soon to avoid getting home after dark. Unfortunately, that meant we missed the late afternoon photo opportunities.

I recorded 67 assorted road engines in steam just short of what would have been an appropriate round number, the programme was rather vague about some of the anticipated attendees which amounted to 71 from my interpretation so it's possible I missed some.

There is a video clip available - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgpPuKD2yy8.

Choose the page you are interested in and within that, click on a thumbnail for a larger image. Then click again to return to the page.

David Collidge's Steam Scenes website (http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/) is a fount of information and was a great help in compiling these pages.

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Rob and Yuehong  Dickinson

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