Tinkers Park
 

Blessed with sunshine most of the day despite a dodgy forecast yesterday, yet again an excellent rally.
Debut engine was Allchin 669 Bess of 1890.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...9Bess18904.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...9Bess18903.jpg
Fowlers Nightmare
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...mare1913-1.jpg
and Windsor
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Correction.jpg
Sandringham also present but not steamable.
Burrell The Tinker
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Correction.jpg
Aveling Porter Southern Queen
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Correction.jpg
And from the sublime to the rediculous......................
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...548Cropped.jpg
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Bess looks great! Well done all lovely to see her out again.

Thanks Bob, the photos look great, didnt take many was to busy playing :) Was a great weekend, we took "Bess" back last night, had a great run back in the evening sun. Cant wait till she is finished and we can be out and about a bit more.

The only photo I took the whole weekend, taken on the journey to Tinkers
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...heman/bess.jpg

Good event and great to see mainly engines I'd not seen before at other events.

Great to see Bess out and about again, what an interesting old engine she is. Glad that those pickering govenors have not been put back. I notice that the smokebox is an extension of the boiler barrel, wonder if it will be lagged?
Well done to Steve and all those involved.

Fowler Nightmare
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...mare1913-1.jpg

Stunning! Who owns this?

Show guide says Ruth Atkinson of Essex. And that its an A8 Road loco with a R3 boiler & nothing fits Hence the name "Nightmare".

Its the perfect pub crawl engine, as you can fit loads in the tendor as they did on Saturday night, its also goes like stink.

Allchin "Bess"
 

Yes , she will have the lagging on, just didn't have time as steam test was only done last Wednesday evening. I am refitting the original 1890 sheets again. There will be two rolled plates that fix to the perch bracket and onto the door angle plate coming back, the first
brass band will cover the join between plates and lagging sheets. This is the original 1890design.
Steve