Portsmouth Victorian Festival
 

This years token presence of road steam was ably provided by the Wakelin's Marshall 'Victoria' and Tim Watson's excellent model Burrell

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Not sure how well 'Frederick' steamed with the smokebox stuffed with food but Tim was still steaming round the dockyard throughout the day

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Thanks for the pictures Richard. The AGA casserole dish doesn't affect steaming too much because it is well shaped for the smokebox, which is pretty deep. Not exactly strenuous work though, moving around dead slow in second wheel. We fed three adults and a child today!

Tim

Is that a urn behind just in front of the exciter dyno

It's a kettle!!

yes and Tim make a good cuppa

Sorry Yes Meant urn as in Kettle. Great Idea that never seen it on a model before.

We had a great weekend at the dockyard with Victoria, here are a couple more pictures..

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And the view out of our wagon window for the weekend...

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See you bought plenty of lighting up wood in the shape of HMS Victory

Isn't arson in HM's dockyards a capital offence?

:)

Some other steam interests were also in attendance.
There was our 3" Fowler showmans' with living van and ride, and steam hauled rides on a splendid 10" gauge railway.