Christmas / New Year Steam Up!
 

It seems a bit quiet on the Christmas & New Year steam up list ! Anything happening in Cheshire, Staffordshire,Derbyshire or Shropshire over the festive period !.

Merry Christmas.

Tez

Boxing Day sees the Tom Barlow Memorial run, starting at The Jolly Thresher PH at Broomedge, Lymm on the A56, then on to The Wheatsheaf and finally The Old No3, normally have four or five full size engines, miniatures, tractors, wagons, cars etc, but most important, rally people having a good old chinwag and a pint or two. Last year we had a deputation from the Whixall triangle, it would be nice to see you again chaps, providing of course you can find your way out.

I shall be in steam new years day going to the Hanmer Arms for lunch, there are a few Tractors coming but it's starting to look like all the other engines around these parts are sleeping

Will need some trade plates to be with you this year Neil. No boiler ticket!

LOL

If you want to tow mine it can come?

Hire a Hydravane compressor and you can drive it there!

You up for steering?

Its a date. The Beer is on you!.

are you towing the ransomes then :)

Has anybody got a Hydravane compressor I can borrow?

with the T3??

I've just had a better idea.

Anyone have some steam hose?

Which brings me to......

The Marshall will be in the shed feeling sad. No towbar on the Austin (and in anycase the headlights stopped working last time out)

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Sorry to but in here ,but that video on Cloggs post with the Tarmac DG6, has left a big impression on me as to the speed & acceleration,
which those steamers had, akin to diesel trucks today, i had no idea as to their performance.

I've seen that Tarmac truck doing something like 50mph round the ring at Malpas !:eek:


Merry Christmas


Tez

We hired one out once, but a bad debt resulted.....

I thought I had an offer then.

you could have mine but B A wore it out before the syndicate bought theirs !! plus he had a flat tyre as well an now it sits lob-sided LOL

Time to call in favours?

I think I have had a few

It would be nice she will 100 year old.

I've got a Hyrdovane but you'll need a L O N G cable for the 'lecky.

Well...erm...I can see this thread has now gone on to 3 pages and I still haven't got an answer to my inital question !!! :( *cry


Merry Christmas.


Tez

I think the answer is still being debated.

I hope to steam my Ruston SD tractor for the first time ever. If I can get finished in time, else new near steam up.

It's a pity we are so far apart...could have a Little & Large Steam up !. :D

Merry Christmas.


Tez

W6cloggs gave you a answer for the Shropshire / welsh borders on new years day ,he,s steaming his engine to the hanmer arms and hopfully I will be on there with him happy Christmas and a great new year steaming on *party

New years eve at W6cloggs house
 

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New years eve at W6cloggs house
 

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The Portable looks well alive there thumbsup I can remember the first time I saw one of those...I was about 5 or 6 years old when my grandfather took me to the colliery where he was surface manager at the time and I saw my very first two full size steam engines plus the portable which I was later told it had been there to belt drive a generator to provide power for bringing the miners back to surface during wartime blackouts and also on site lighting and if I also remember rightly one of the full size engines was a Ploughing engine which was also used for bringing miners back up to the surface in emergency. I have never seen anything of this mentioned during my time on TT and was wondering if anyone else recalls engines being used for these purposes !.

Cheers

Tez

? Did you get to light a fire in it yet then Colin? If so any pictures?

Paul.

Steam engines at coal mines
 

Regarding the use of engines at coal mines, every shaft had to have a jockey wheel at the top of the shaft for emergency winding in event of the main winding engines being out of commission but I would suspect that if ploughing engines were used then an extra long rope would be needed. The back up engines for the ventilation fans were often steam, I remember a Bellis & Morcom engine at Ellistown Colliery up until such time as the colliery closed in the early 1980's. Incidentally the same pit had a single cylinder horizontal engine which worked a triple-throw crankshaft with rods that went down the shaft to a pump for pumping water into a surface reservoir. Steam winding engines were common in a lot of collieries until the late 1970's.

Colin - I believe that triple throw pump and engine were at the old Lound Hall Mining Museum in the late 80s, we saw it there. It then went to Chatterley Whitfield, no idea if it survives now.

Back in the early 90's a Traction Engine Rally was held in the grounds of Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum and I was there as an exhibitor and don't remember seeing the pump at that time...perhaps I missed it !.

Cheers

Tez

Had a pleasant xmas morning taking a couple of foreign friends with nothing better to do for a wee ride around the block. All done and dusted by lunchtime fortunately, since the rain set in with a vengeance about 1:00

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Backed up to fill with coal


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Cresting the one in seven out of the yard