Weeting
Steam Rally 2025
Other Engines - Part 1
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 Weeting 2025 index and click here for the overall index for 2025.
Ploughing Engines
Viewed from a distance, it seems that fewer and fewer rallies are offering steam ploughing. Weeting is an exception, no doubt the fact that it has its own resident 'kit' avoids the significant cost of moving it around. It's a shame because I think it is the 'blue ribbon of the working displays, an area which has always been one of Weeting's strong points. This year there were two pairs at work, further north than on my previous visits. The programme suggested that 15420's 'other half' 15421 would be present as a static exhibit but for whatever reason it didn't happen.
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Maker |
Number |
Registration |
Notes |
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Fowler | 15211/1918 | AD 8991 |
"Horsa" Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture Weeting Rally 2022 Picture Weeting Rally 2023 Picture Weeting Rally 2024 Picture |
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Fowler | 15420/1920 | HR 4261 | Weeting Rally 2024 Picture |
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Fowler | 15453/1925 | TW 1803 | "Saucy Sue" Weeting Rally 2017 Picture Weeting Rally 2018 Picture Weeting Rally 2022 Picture Weeting Rally 2023 Picture Weeting Rally 2024 Picture |
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Fowler | 15454/1925 | TW 1802 |
"Bonzor Tom" |
Steam Wagons
Showman's Engines
The emphasis at Weeting is on agricultural engines and only the newly restored Foden was a pleasant surprise. It was repatriated from Australia and I had seen it under restoration at GDSF 2018. Fellow gricers are thin on the ground at rallies these days, far too many have moved on to the GDSF in the sky. Only here and at Appleford have there been more than a handful and there I found a group shooting a couple of Showman's engines in an otherwise empty green field. Here, another group were recreating an old photograph to the nearest inch...
