Camborne Trevithick Day, (28th April, 2018)
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 2018 index.
On the last Saturday of April each year, the good people of Camborne come together to have a giant street party to celebrate the town's most famous son, Richard Trevithick. Naturally steam engines are the centre piece and after being on show during the day, they parade round the town in the afternoon.
As usual, the camera lies, there were at least as many cloudy moments as sunny ones and together with the large crowds, this made photography a little challenging. The vast majority of the engines recorded as can be deduced from the links are based in Cornwall.
We had a wonderful time ambling around soaking up the atmosphere with musicians, dancers and singers all over the place, competing to be more 'Cornish' than the others. The organisers did a wonderful job to bring it all together, while I was naturally disappointed at the amount of litter as the crowds melted away at the end of the day, by 09.00 the next morning the streets had been swept clean - it was a task that would have had to be done anyway and probably cheaper than bringing in more waste receptacles specially.
Steam Rollers
General Engines
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Burrell | 2909/1907 | AF 3517 |
"Cornishman" Cornish Fair 2017 Picture Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture |
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Burrell | 3816/1919 | AF 3518 |
"Cornish Maid" Torbay Rally 2014 Picture Torbay Rally 2015 Picture Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture Torbay Rally 2018 Picture Trevithick Day 2019 Picture Abbey Hill Rally 2019 Picture Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture |
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Burrell | 3919/1922 | BW 6030 | "Susie" Cornish Fair 2015 Picture Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture Trevthick Day 2017 Picture Cornish Fair 2017 Picture Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture |
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Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies | 38088/1927 | DO 6883 |
Welland
Rally 2015 Picture Trevithick Day 2019 Picture |
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Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies | 42013/1931 | TL 1974 | "Sister Wendy" Cornish Fair 2015 Picture Boconnoc Fair 2016 Picture Trevthick Day 2017 Picture Cornish Fair 2017 Picture Boconnoc Fair 2019 Picture Trevithick Day 2019 Picture |
Showman's Engine
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Burrell | 3949/1922 | NO 9287 | "Princess Mary / Pride of Dorset" Welland Rally 2018 Picture Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture Abbey Hill Rally 2019 Picture Welland Rally 2019 Picture |
Ploughing Engine
Portable Engines
Steam Car
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White | 76 JS | Model B, Surrey, 1902 Cornish Fair 2015 Picture Trevithick Day 2017 Picture Cornish Fair 2017 Picture |
Steam Locomotive
 | Peckett | 1788/1923 | "Kilmersdon" Normally kept on the West Somerset Railway but on loan to the Helston Railway, 2018-9 |
Replica Trevithick Engine
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2001 built replica of Richard Trevithick's 1801
pioneering road engine "Puffing Devil", in the care of the Trevithick
Society. The original was destroyed while the engineer and
his mate adjourned to an inn after hitting the equivalent of a large
pothole... Cornish Fair 2015 Picture Trevthick Day 2017 Picture |
