Cheltenham Steam & Vintage Fair : Oct 10/11
 

October 10th & 11th : Cheltenham Racecourse

20+ Full Size Steam Engines, 100 + Commercials & Military Vehicles.
Classic Cars, Tractors, Fun Fair inc Gallopers, Staionary Engines plus all the usual trimmings of tradition Steam & Vintage Rally.

Threshing Display : Road Making Display : Wood Sawing.

Bar + Catering etc.

Ride the GWR Railway from Showground to Toddington taking in spectacular scenery.
Visit the Narrow Gauge Railway at Toddington.

A fantastic day out for the entire family. Great Atmosphere and fantastic fun for all !

Plenty of Hard Standing so you can enjoy the event whatever the weather.

Were going should be fun !!! hope fully roading over saterday morning!!!

Where you roading from Gruffer? And what sort of time?

Any ploughing this year ?

i think there is,thers a ploughing engine at a farm down the road from the site,i think its m davis,from southem warks.:)

Tractor and Steam Ploughing.

Does anyone know what time Friday night exhibitors can come in until?

Ring your section leader to clarify.

Tried that but they did not know.

Come say hi if anyone is going

Hi Sir John, are you connected with a Whole lot of Trouble? Or were you? Can anyone give me the phone number of the Commercials Steward please? I want to go this weekend but can't find the contact number.

October 10th & 11th : Cheltenham Racecourse
 

i thought the rally had been moved to toddinton is this right as i am going up tommorow

Yes according to the NTET event listing.

It was also mentioned in another thread on here somewhere IIRC

The event is moving to Toddington.

Sir john (as in me) is no longer connected with the event as an organiser.

I have no idea who runs the commercials other than they wanted it run different and are hand picking people and turning a lot away.

I am going with my engine and 'Hole Load Of Trouble' display. If you PM me today with your specific enquiry I may be able to help you.

Hole Load of Trouble, is a name not to be associated with this event. It is my display name, not the events.

www.holeloadoftrouble.com

Although the picture of the Burrell appears to have been taken at Cheltenham racecourse the advert in Old Glory & the event notice on the Glos and Warks Railway website both suggest that it has returned to the previous site adjacent to Toddington station.

The GWSR website also notes that there will be NO steam ploughing this year, though suggests there will be ploughing engines.

its definatly at toddington this year and definatly no ploughing should be a good event
lots of engines !!!!:p

Thought the show was at Toddington this year, not the racecourse.

If our low loader turns up - lol

This thread was started in 2009 refering to the event at Cheltenham racecourse perhaps that is where the confusion started about this years location?? Isn't this years event on 9-10th?

Does anyone know what's been booked to attend?

Ambiguous thread titles and not clearly stating event locations is a common problem when people post advance notices about events on this forum and others i've noticed, quire often.

Some (events) give excellent details of were what and when, but others assume every body knows or is able to guess which end of the country an event is located from the scant info given, or that just posting a web site link suffices (as often they are sadly lacking in details when you look at them of were it is, requiring some hunting for the details on the site) . - The previous comments are a general statement about many events and not targeted at this one.



Back to this event ;-
The event at Cheltenham last year was good day apart from some of the car owners, who were obviously only there for a free day/weekend out, as they had no interest in the paying public trying to take photos in quite a few cases.:( The layout of the car section was cramped with space left for the Sunday only brigade by the look of it when i visited on the Saturday.

Were as the steam people are very obliging moving out of photos, when they see people waiting and moving objects, or even the engine to let you get a good shot. thumbsup.

Shame there is no ploughing this year, as there was quire a bit of interest in it last year with some of the stubble on fire.:eek:

Was a decent turn out of tractors with a few more interesting machine as-well.

I'll see if i make the trip down again this year, if the weathers ok

It is definately 100% being held at Toddington this weekend.

Nigel usually gets a good selection of engines, I suspect this year will be no exception.

Our Roller and 'pile of shit' (Copyright: P.Tonks) is heading there today, so will post some images either Friday or Saturday Evening.

Cracking traditional sort of show. 28ish steamers, if you missed it today, well worth a visit tomorrow.