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 2017.
The Cromford Steam Rally was in its 47th year
and proud to be an unreconstructed steam rally. This was a rush visit at the
end of the show from 15.00 on the Sunday on our way home from Yorkshire and
a morning visiting the original 6998 near Driffield, which is a splendid
unmodified Elizabethan Hall and Gardens. It was very overcast and the last
engines were arriving for the Grand
Parade, so I was restricted for the most part to photographing the engines
returning up the muddy slope to their pegs and then preparing to go home.
Being barely 10 miles from the Belper event we attended in June, not
surprisingly there was a degree of commonality in the engines on show.

Steam Rollers
General Engines
A gaggle of familiar engines three of which I
had seen gathered in the saw bench area at Rempstone earlier in the year:

Showman's Engines
Some compensation for having to pick his way
through the mud for the owner of 'Queen of Great Britain', he was right
chuffed as you can tell.

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