Duncombe Park
 

Though I would add it seems its not on yet.
The rally is 4th 5th July in Helmsley. North Yorkshire. Great rally and always a good selection of engines. Anyone else goin?

Great Yorkshire Traction Engine Club Steam & Vintage Rally Duncombe Park
 

Just to confirm Duncombe Park Steam & Vintage Rally DEFINTELY going ahead on Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th July at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, Nth Yorkshire.
Beautiful location on edge of North Yorkshire moors.

80+ Traction engines including Winston Churchill, General Gough and The President.
Vintage & Classic Tractors, Vintage cars, Millitary and Commercial vehicles etc etc.

Public camping available please visit website for more details www.duncombeparksteamrally.co.uk

Great day out for all the family.

Looking forward to it - just hope the weather is an improvement over last years, which is why I didn't make it!

I also missed last years show because of the weather and hope this year things turn out better , very good event .
Is the figure of 80+ engines made up of full size and minature ?

This is a worthwhile question. I attended a ralley that stated 60 engines, and greater than 50% (32 of 60) were minatures. This was very dissappointing. Nothing wrong with the small ones, and I admire the engineering skills that goes into making them, just that I was expecting 60 full size jobs.

Understand a mixture of both so should be a good turn out.

I understand there is over 40 full size expected and over 30 miniatures expected, hope the weather holds out!

Dont think it could get much worse than last year

Hi,
We'll be there with our Sentinel and Fowler K5. Duncombe park is always a great rally, a lovely spacious field and a brilliant setting. A good variety of exhibits and an all round good small rally.

Duncombe park, helmsley. North yorks
 

BEEN ON SITE TONIGHT, ALL LOOKING WELL FOR GOOD WEEKEND. (hope weather keeps fine)

Pleased all well with the rally field, we traveling up there tonight with our tractors.

Is anyone roading any engines / tractors to the show ??

See you there folks !!

Can anyone give an update as to how the weather as been today , hope that the rain stays away, I'm hoping to spend Saturday up there.

going tomorrow-any idea what the ground is like?

cheers

heard yesterday it was raining but ground was hard and forcast sun for saturday till 4 pm.

Chris.

We're sunburnt from being there yesterday.

Really good day out , excellent selection of engines , probably the best I have seen at Duncombe Park .
The President looked and sounded great when working with the McLaren in the haulage area.
Fowler " Phoenix " is new to me along with Fowler "Bonnie" , nice roller .

Reckon Duncombe park was about spot on this year. It has been a brilliant weekend with a good friendly atmosphere and a good variety of exhibits, the weather was perfect and there was only one shower to speak of today. A fantastic drive home too, that coal may have been smokey but we didn't half shift on the way back, more steam than we knew what to do with.
I've hard a rumour that next years will be back at Castle Howard, where it was some years ago, is there anything in that?

Great rally this year.. first time we've been with the engine, and we want to go back!

Andy

See show reports for my pics.