Marcle Steam Rally 2014
Working Steam

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 Marcle index and click here for the overall 2014 index.

Two steam ploughing engines had been booked to work, but the conditions around the entrance to the field were unsafe, so the plough sat forlornly all alone

Saw Bench

The Brown family's Diamond Queen (Burrell 2003/1897) had been powering the saw bench at Marcle in 2013, it wasn't well placed but I didn't take the video anyway. Today it was perfectly placed...See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtzm_TRnl_w a video clip of this.

Threshing and Baling

Barrows and Carmichael portable (316 ca 1865) was powering a Foster Thresher and a Nicholson Baler was run with an ancient tractor which escaped my camera. Fortunately, the barley had been cut before Friday's and Saturday's rain! See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HXBpvV5_84 for a video clip of this.