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Originally Posted by jamespeterbrett
The people who make comments of this are normally poorly educated in how much it costs to take a engine to a show, weather on a lorry, lowloader, or roaded in, and many are (wrongly) think just because you have a engine, you are loaded with money and can afford to take you engine to shows out of your own pocket. There are shows about that do not have steam, but these are not as popular as those that do. Stradsett park rally is organised by NvTEC, and in the last few years has started having a few engines present as they have realised they are a more of a crowd puller than 100's of pop and bangs, and static tractors.
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And that is certainly the case in this instance, but the reaction is just - why not leave them in a museum. I think the show needs to work out what it wants to be. It certainly is not what it was. But what do the organisers want the future to be?