Shrewsbury Steam Rally 2017
Steam Wagons
This is one of a series of pages I will be uploading to illustrate facets of steam rallies we have attended in our part of 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 Click here for the Shrewsbury index and click here for the overall index.
After the special turnout of Sentinels in 2015, like 2016 this year's offering returned to normal. Sentinel 6426 is a 'tractor' but is shown here as it always appears grouped with the wagons at the rally. The presence of the visiting Trevithick replica locomotive meant that the wagons had to be squeezed in among the rest of the engines which made for a very tight fit and even though the Sentinels were now parked facing south this was not a photographic improvement. Hence most pictures show the Sentinels returning to their pegs after the Grand Parade on the Sunday, going up they were more or less head first into the sun. Sentinel 3976 was present only on the Monday.
