Barton Gate Steam Rally, 16th - 17th July, 2016

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 2016 index.

Returning south from Masham on the Sunday, I was conscious of the small rally near Barton-under-Needwood just south of Burton on Trent, We'd done the tourist thing at Fountains Abbey so we didn't arrive until 14.30 and saw the tail end of the show. These seemed to be mostly local engines, about one third were not seen before and others had been seen near here at Elvaston and Rempstone. It was a delight to visit, we saw 'children' in a steering 'race' and enjoyed a final Grand Parade. It was extraordinary to see two of the Wallis Simplicity rollers in two days and the unique old John Allen assembled Fowler roller was an absolute treasure. It was a day where you couldn't go wrong photographically - as long as you asked politely to enter the sawing area. A couple of hours later we carried on home entirely satisfied, especially as Yuehong did well off a bric-a-brac stall.

Many of these engines were familiar, but very welcome sights in a new environment. 

General Engines

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Aveling and Porter	5065/1902	SA 4835	Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2019 Picture
	Aveling and Porter	11486/1926	KM 7100	"Morning Star" South Cerney Rally 2013 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2013 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2016 Picture  Cromford Rally 2017 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2017 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2018 Picture
	Fowler	12761/1911	BH 8166	"Elsa"  Working a new mobile saw bench, based on a Canadian import. Rempstone Rally 2016 Picture  Leicester Abbey Rally 2017 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture  Welland Rally 2018 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2019 Picture
	Fowler	14600/1915	HO 5590	"Victoria"  Rempstone Rally 2016 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture
	Fowler	14805/1920	UG 1496	"Lord Doverdale"  Lincoln Rally 2013 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2014 Picture  Welland Rally 2015 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2016 Picture  Welland Rally 2016 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2016 Picture  Belper Rally 2017 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture  Welland Rally 2017 Picture  Cromford Rally 2017 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture  Welland Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Welland Rally 2019 Picture  Cromford Rally 2021 Picture
	Marshall	56125/1911	NT 595	Elvaston Rally 2014 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2018 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2021 Picture
	Wallis and Steevens	7008/1908	IJ 3582	Old Warden Rally 2014 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2016 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2017 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2018 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2018 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2021 Picture

Steam Rollers

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Aveling and Porter	10005/1921	BB 5023	"Perseverance"
	Fowler	8111/1898	BW 4798	Assembled by John Allen, Oxford (One of three such engines, only survivor) Klondyke Mill Party 2018 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2021 Picture
	Fowler	17487/1929	LC 2251	Elvaston Rally 2014 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2021 Picture
	Fowler	17492/1928	UI 2066	Klondyke Mill Party 2018 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2021 Picture
	Marshall	76795/1923	FU 1325	Rempstone Rally 2016 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture
	Wallis and Steevens	7939/1927	OT 6514	"Emily"

Showman's Engine

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Burrell	2547/1903	BL 8368	"Endurance" Welland Rally 2013 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2013 Picture  Welland Rally 2014 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2014 Picture  Welland Rally 2015 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2016 Picture  Welland Rally 2017 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2017 Picture  Welland Rally 2018 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2018 Picture  Welland Rally 2019 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2018 Picture

Freelance Engine

	Maker			Notes
	James Calder			Built in the 1960s with Locomobile engine (ca 1900) and Ford 10 van chassis with Hovis horse drawn baker's body (ca 1902)