Shrewsbury Steam Rally (27th - 28th August, 2023)
This is one of a series of pages I have uploaded to illustrate facets of the steam rallies we have attended in the UK. Click here for the 2023 introduction and overall index.
For the first time since we started visiting steam rallies in 2013, we were not at Shrewsbury - I felt that the Bressingham Steam Portable Gathering was too special to miss and unlikely to be repeated in my lifetime - so I made my apologies to the Shrewsbury boss during the rally at Welland and later arranged for fellow enthusiast Rod Smith to cover my absence here. He did the business very well as you will see and now he too knows the amount of work that goes into successfully photographing (properly) every single one of the steam road engines here. It wasn't his fault that the weather wasn't really up to the job. Yes, I could have driven from Diss to Shrewsbury or vice versa at the end of Day 1 and done both but in deference to my age and our kind hosts in Diss, I felt it was, perhaps, not a good idea.
I didn't ask Rod to get a set of photographs of the very attractive working areas as they don't change much year by year. If you are not familiar with these, then please look at my comprehensive 'Working Steam 2022' feature.
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