Pickering 2010
 

A handful of pictures from the opening day before the clouds enveloped the show. Several engines listed had not arrived as of 1200.

have you got a list of entrants ?

Chris.

As of last night those around the site were

Aveling Barford 998
Aveling & Porter 6091, 8754, 10575, 11145, 11450, 14070
Burrell 2417, 2696, 3285, 3444, 3526, 3651, 3878, 3886, 3888, 3890, 4000
Clayton & Shuttleworth 38742
Foden 2104, 13536
Foster 14632
Fowler 6624, 11082, 13881, 14406, 14425, 14375, 14948, 15653, 16439, 17470, 17501, 17506, 17578
Garrett 32762, 33284, 33486, 33566
Mann 1386
Marshall 38977, 40047, 51483, 76890
McLaren 682, 1038
Ransomes 24585
Sentinel 6079, 7591

It was a good event, however It has to be said that organisation (for the steamers at least) is the worst I've experienced in a number of years, and that is saying something. No defined engine line, not enough coal, difficult to come by water at times and the stewards had very little contact with most of the engine owners; we did get paid though. I thought the whole event had a very rough and untidy feel to it too.
Shame the road run has drawn co much police attention too.

Sorry if you did not have enough coal but we sent the amount we were paid to send.

O dear o dear o dear .Just note we will not have that problem at Old Wardem , will we .;)

I noticed that the Fowler K5 was getting through some big logs while parading the arena .
I enjoyed the day on the whole , plenty to see and not enough time to see it all .
For me the lack of a showman's line up was not an issue , photography I found to be easier .


Dave

Photo's from Sunday .

http://s650.photobucket.com/albums/u...kering%202010/

It has to be said that the quality of the coal was definitely much better than it usually is! No complaints on that front. I saw them tipping it up loose on the Friday night, so all the pre-bagged stuff must have been distributed within the first two days. One of the blokes looking after our K5 has a wood yard, so we tend to get a load of logs in and put all the coal on the Sentinel. Unfortunately that coal is still on the back as we blew a tube out on the Saturday night road run and ended up on the low loader home. Most of the boiler fittings are now strewn about our shed and we should have it split for re-tubing by this time tomorrow!

Most sections at Pickering looked fantastically organised, it is just a shame the engines couldn't be set out neatly, there wasn't really enough space left for the general purpose engines. Our waggon spent two days parked in the middle of the caravans because health and safety said we couldn't obstruct the space round the ringside and there was nowhere else to park.

I found the coal to be pretty awful to be honest, their was no way we could generate on the engine as it would cover our fair rides in rubbish,

Lord Lassels tried to generate on the saturday for the chairoplanes but the smoke was that bad when just powering the cab lights, they had to stop to save everybodys lungs on the fair.

However it was still a good event and i thouroughly enjoyed it.