Great Central Railway, Easter Vintage Festival  (15th - 18th April, 2022)

This is one of a series of pages which I have uploaded to illustrate facets of steam rallies we have attended in the UK. Such events occur all over the country in the summer months, they are easily found by using your favourite search engine and may have anything between a handful of steam engines and hundreds (as at the Great Dorset Steam Fair which could probably be fairly described as having an excess of riches). Click here for the overall index for 2022.

I had this event down as a 'possible', I try to avoid these 'preserved railway' events which usually suffer from a lack of space which severely limits movement and tends to cram the engines up together. In the event, Paul Gilbey attended on the Friday and tipped me off about the attendees and there would have been just two 'new engines' which, with the current financial squeeze most pensioners face, saw me stay home and work on our garden instead. So these are Paul's pictures and again I am very grateful to him for making them available.

Steam Rollers

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Armstrong Whitworth	2/1923	BD 7511	South Cerney Rally 2013 Picture Kettering Fayre 2014 Picture  Hollowell Rally 2015 Picture  Hollowell Rally 2016 Picture  Hollowell Rally 2017 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture
	Aveling and Porter	5163/1903	NR 6525	Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture
	Aveling and Porter	10997/1924	MO 3687	Abergavenny Rally 2014 Picture   Marcle Rally 2014 Picture  Stoke Prior Rally 2014 Picture  Abergavenny Rally 2015 Picture  Marcle Rally 2015 Picture  Speech House Show 2017 Picture
	Aveling and Porter	11240/1925	RO 641	Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture
	Aveling and Porter	12342/1929	UT 4405	"Lord Elpus"  Hollowell Rally 2016 Picture  Hollowell Rally 2017 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2018 Picture  Rutland Water 2018 Picture
	Marshall	76116/1923	YA 5040	"Maid Marion"  Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture
	Wallis and Steevens	7784/1923	XP 2338	Elvaston Rally 2014 Picture
	Wallis and Steevens	7833/1925	HO 6397	"Raven"
	Wallis and Steevens	8047/1930	OU 6002	Tinkers Park Rally 2015 Picture  Tinkers Park Rally 2018 Picture  Wiston Rally 2019 Picture
	Wallis and Steevens	8099/1936	AOU 941	Elvaston Rally 2014 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2016 Picture  Belper Rally 2017 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture  Klondyke Mill Party 2018 Picture

General Engines

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Aveling and Porter	1995/1884	BT 3939	Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture
	Burrell	4093/1931	DV 9252	"Dorothy" Welland Rally 2013 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2013 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2013 Picture  Banbury Rally 2017 Picture  Hollowell Rally 2017 Picture  Welland Rally 2017 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2017 Picture  Banbury Rally 2018 Picture  Welland Rally 2018 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2018 Picture  Stoke Row Rally 2019 Picture  Banbury Rally 2019 Picture  Welland Rally 2019 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2019 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture  Northleach Show 2019 Picture
	Foster	14410/1920	UP 6481	"Sprig" Lincoln Rally 2013 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2013 Picture   Banbury Rally 2014 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2014 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2014 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2016 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2016 Picture  Belper Rally 2017 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture  Cromford Rally 2017 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2017 Picture  Shrewsbury Rally 2018 Picture  Banbury Rally 2019 Picture  Cromford Rally 2021 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2019 Picture
	Garrett	33986/1920	BJ 5601	"Queen Mary" / "Anker" Lincoln Rally 2016 Picture  Belper Rally 2017 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture  Cromford Rally 2017 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Banbury Rally 2019 Picture  Cromford Rally 2021 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2019 Picture
	Tasker	1765/1918	SR 1252	"Jolly"  Tinkers Park Rally 2018 Picture  Wiston Rally 2019 Picture
	Wallis and Steevens	7248/1914	HR 3555	"Pedler"  South Cerney Rally 2013 Picture Shrewsbury Rally 2019 Picture
	Wallis and Steevens	7641/1920	BW 4668	"Gunner"  Wiston Steam Rally 2019 Picture

Steam Wagon

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Sentinel	7651/1928	BS 9215	Shrewsbury Rally 2015 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2016 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2016 Picture  Rempstone Rally 2017 Picture  Cromford Rally 2017 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2019 Picture

Showman's Engine

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Fowler	15653/1920	CU 978	"Renown"   Lincoln Rally 2013 Picture  Fawley Hill Rally 2014 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2014 Picture  Llandudno Extravaganza 2015 Picture  Astle Park Rally 2015 Picture  Fawley Hill Rally 2016 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2016 Picture  Old Warden Rally 2016 Picture  Whitby Rally 2017 Picture  Astle Park Rally 2017 Picture  Harewood Fair 2017 Picture  Elvaston Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Yorkshire Traction Engine Rally 2018 Picture  Great North Steam Fair 2019 Picture  Lincoln Rally 2019 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture  Cromford Rally 2021 Picture

Portable Engine

	Maker	Number	Notes
	Marshall	????/1929	Returned from Chile

Fairground Centre Engine

	Maker	Number	Notes
	Savage	664/1896	"Lady Go Lightly", Savage 664/1896 Seen previously on several occasions including Fawley Hill in 2014, Llandudno in 2015 and Elvaston in 2018..