abbey hill steam rally
 

well done Charlie ,great steam steward,great weather ,great friends ,great coal ,what more could anybody ask for,thanks Charlie LEW

Had a very enjoyable visit on Saturday and great to catch-up with everyone. Took hundreds of pictures, but here's a few! (If any owner wants a decent copy just drop me a PM and I'll happily email them over)

Firstly the miniatures:

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And the full size:

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Royal Chester on the saw-bench:

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The weather was perfect for relaxing in front of the beer tent!

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And then the evening road run:

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I would just like to thank Charlie for inviting us to a superb event. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. A good atmosphere, nice people, brilliant weather and not to much Hi Viz H&S. Thankyou again.

I would like to echo the above, many thanks to Charlie. Had a cracking weekend with the Garrett, and the 6", including two thoroughly enjoyable road runs, the view when we got to Ham Hill was stunning, with lots of laughs along the way, including a little bit of night driving on the way back which was good. All in all a brilliant weekend!

Was a very good weekend at Abbey Hill with the Loader engines, as mentioned already a huge thanks must go to the organisers, especially Charlie. Was a good engine turnout and good to see a few new engines to the rally as well.
Jim

Thanks Charlie and the rest of the Abbey Hill team, had a great weekend, brilliant sunshine, good company and what a way to start the rally season.

First time at a rally for 'The Devster', and despite a few dribbles here and there seemed to behave very well. A great time was had by all. Good to catch up with Charlie and JR as well.

Nice job by all.

What is the Fowler tractor/conversion? - not seen that before.

It looks like one thats either on holidays from or has been bought out of Eire.

D2(?) roller or convertable with wheels off a very old traction.

I have the origional front rolls off this engine,they also went on holidays from the engine :;)