The Festival of Steam is our Premier Event, showcasing all types of steam working steam power. With around 20 visiting road engines including road rollers, traction engines, agricultural engines and steam lorries and as many of our own engines as possible in steam, this promises to be our biggest event of the year.
The list of expected visiting road engines for 2008 include:
Burrell Road Loco 1914
Fowler Road Roller
Aveling & Porter Tractor
2NHP Portable & Saw Bench
The President - Burrell Road Loco
Burrell Agricultural
Ransomes Crane Engine
Marshall Q Type & Saw Bench
Aveling Roller 12.5 Ton
Southern Queen
Aveling Roller C Type
Burrell Agricultural 6 NHP
Fowler Tractor
Foden C Type Wagon
Foreman Steam Tractor
Foden D Type
Fowler Single Agricultural Engine
Aveling & Porter F Type Road Roller
Ransomes Simms & Jefferies Traction Engine
Wallis & Steevens
Wallis Traction Engine
We also steam as many of our own engines as possible including our Fowler and Allen Ploughing engines, Aveling & Porter Roller and Burrell Gold Medal Tractor. Richard Hooker's Aveling Road loco, Janet Rowland's Aveling & Porter Agricultural and Arthur Mills Gold Medal Tractor are also expected to be in steam. Of course our complete Edwardian Steam fair and railways will also operating providing a fun filled day for all.
All in all, we anticipate that there will be around forty steam powered attractions in operation.
The photos below were taken at a previous Festival of Steam and depict a selection of what was on show.
