Will this be the last steam gathering of the season?
I went down through the local lanes to Goostrey this afternoon on the little Innova motorcycle to the steam party at the Crown Inn. I didn't stay long as it was pretty cold, but there was a fair few engines there.
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Full size engine and miniature steam lorry
Probably more rollers than traction engines present
The late Fred Dibnah's roller 'Betsy'
Matt Jodrell (volunteer steam driver / fireman on the Churnet Valley Railway) with his roller and living van. The dirty marks down the boiler were caused by the roller 'priming' on its way here from Matt's home in Crewe. 'Priming' is boiler water being picked up with steam by the steam feed from the boiler to the cylinder, and ejected from the chimney. Priming on a steam locomotive is usually caused by too high a water level in the boiler, but Matt tells me his roller will prime even with 1/4 gauge-glass of water if the boiler water sloshes around too much when on the move.
General view towards the pub. It was bit of a dull and cold day buy hey, it's nearly November!
Matt's roller, with his living van on the left
Peter Flitcroft (Urmston steam railway member) admires a very strange 'steam pickup'
The steam 'pick up', with Ribble Steam Railway's roller behind
The Crown Inn car park was pretty full of engines...
The vertical boiler of the steam pick up, with the V-twin engine just in front of the steering column
A closer view of that 90 degree V-twin steam engine in the pick up
Miniature engine and full size
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