International Steam at Large 2019

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We were in Yeovil on Saturday:

http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/...kindexah19.htm

35 engines and only 6 were here 5 years ago...

Unfortunately it's a pretty congested show ground which restricts movement for the most part.

Enjoy.

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We attended these rallies over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. The reports can be accessed through my 2019 index page:

http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/.../ukindex19.htm

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We attended on Saturday, there were 30 full sized road steam engines present and it was generally warm and sunny.

What not to enjoy including the Ukulele band playing in the beer tent with a walk in bass player when someone (and maybe an engine or two) got stuck in an enormous jam on the M1.

(So it's not impossible that Sunday may have seen an extra engine or two as there were three 'no shows' in the excellent complementary programme.

Linked as usual from the 2019 index page:

http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/.../ukindex19.htm

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On Sunday we visited the Wiltshire Rally which was a bit of a disaster.

Consequently we also visited the Stoke Row Rally too.

http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/.../ukindex19.htm

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We too got baked in the sun on Saturday:

http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/...kindexbb19.htm

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We were here on the Saturday and the sun came out eventually as things were winding down around 16.30:

http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/.../ukindex19.htm

It was much as before with mainly 'south coast' engines, plenty of movement and 44 engines compared to 34 when we visited 4 years ago. It was well worth what for us is a long journey.

If anyone attended the show and photographed Aveling Barford AC606 which I saw once under the clouds and couldn't find again, I would be grateful for the use of a photograph for the report. There's an email address at the bottom of the report pages.