Hollowell steamfair and "Zeche Hannover" Bochum (Germany)

[chbeyer]

Hi Pedlers Mate et al,

thanks for the repsonse

The weather around here is not much different I suppose, the workshop is cold too

The meeting was on the area of an old coal mine/colliery (?) indeed it is called 'Zeche Hannover' located in the city of Bochum (not to be mistaken with the city of Hannover), located in the old mining area in germany called ruhrgebiet, you can find it here on a map:

http://osm.org/go/0GMNHV--?m=&node=240099833

The building in the back is a large fan for airing the mine shafts, the paddock was in there between the large engines - very nice atmosphere !

They have a gigantic steam hauling engine from 1893:



The meeting was held on the first may weekend last year so that makes it 20 weeks or so to go

It's bi-annual (?) so to speak only every second year, next time in 2015. There were roundabout 40 engines of all scales (and originals) going round the area. There was another steam event on the same weekend near to Berlin in Mildenberg (I have some pics from there from earlier years) So I think some engine owners had to decide where to go ...

Some links:

Museum homepage: http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/wim/po...glish_version/

Review off the 2013 meeting and a nice film about 2011 at the bottom of the page :

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/wim/po...Dampffestival/

cheers
chris