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According to "The Archers" there was a steam rally at Lower Loxley this weekend. I'm afraid I was busy at Havenstreet so I couldn't go. I wonder if anyone on this forum was fortunate enough to attend and would care to post a report...................;)

SAM
Ryde
IOW

Years ago Foster traction engine 14564 was used on the program,but who's engine were at the traction engine rally they had on Emerdale a few years ago?

Yes they had three Scenic Railways - Enoch Farrars, White Bros and Pat Collins - Reuben Holdsworth's Steam Pigs, and Lesike's Big Wheel. There were no less than FOUR Foden Scenics in the showmen's line-up. The opening ceremony was carried out jointly by Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan and Joan Cussack, who were then taken on a tour of the arena on the Fowler Pedrail before taking lunch with the Worlds Fair Correspondents for the Southern Counties in a private marquee. Highlights of the working area were Taylors Steam Pig and the sole surviving Burrell Boydell. Mr Nigel Pargetter fell into the slurry pit, Mr Bert Fry read a poem entitled Will Bob Ever Finish?, and the Bull was drunk dry. The 'Village Pump' was sung in memory of Tom Forrest.

Pictures follow...

We took i think 4 engines to Emmerdale, it was a year on from the plane crash and it was their anniversary event for the programme, Burrell 3201, Mann 881, Fowler 15814 an Robin Knoxs Fowler rr.

Chris.

Weren't the Grundy's selling illicit cider from their own press?

Unofficially...yes.