Much Marcle (Steam) Rally, (23rd - 24th July, 2022) RIP
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.
This was the first rally Yuehong and I attended together in 2013. It's the nearest rally to our home and we always considered that it punched above its weight especially in terms of the working area. We attended every year until 2018 when we were seduced by the 50th anniversary rally at Weeting. In our absence, a report suggested that a change in the organisational structure had seen the number of engines drop considerably and with yet another new steam organiser, the 2019 event attracted only 14 steam engines, just half the average number for 2014 - 2017. To say that I was disappointed would be putting it mildly, it was unrecognisable from its former self and I only attended in 2022 out of 'duty' and because I couldn't face two successive long day trips, the 'new Boconnoc' can wait till 2023.
Even more disappointment awaited me, there were just 9 steam engines and the last 'working area feature', steam ploughing, was absent, despite appearing on the rally information sheet. I shall not be back.
I expressed my disappointment to the committee, it was overcast and, not wanting to twiddle my thumbs for 90 minutes until the steam parade, I was gone by 11.00, hence the mediocre photographs.
I would have expected to see Aveling and Porter roller 9158/1920 as it is associated with Westons Cider next door (I was told at Welland that it showed up late in the morning) but former 'resident' Aveling and Porter 9166/1920 'Emma' had moved to the Waterworks Museum in Hereford before the 2019 rally. Aveling and Porter 1995 was staying in the area for a week after, touring roughly between Ledbury and Hereford where its original owner came from.
General Engines
Steam Rollers
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Maker |
Number |
Registration |
Notes |
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GDSF 2019 Picture 
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Aveling and Porter | 9158/1920 | WR 7274 |
"Old Rosie" Marcle Rally 2013 Picture Marcle Rally 2014 Picture Marcle Rally 2015 Picture Marcle Rally 2016 Picture Marcle Rally 2017 Picture Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture Marcle Rally 2019 Picture Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture |
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Aveling and Porter | 10059/1921 | R 7464 |
Marcle
Rally 2013 Picture
Marcle Rally 2014 Picture Marcle Rally 2015 Picture Marcle Rally 2017 Picture Marcle Rally 2019 Picture |
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Fowler | 17480/1920 | BS 9196 |
"Survivor" Welland Rally 2013 Picture Shrewsbury Rally 2017 Picture Shrewsbury Rally 2018 Picture Shrewsbury Rally 2019 Picture |
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Trotter | */1933 | NXS 424 |
Formerly in the Gloucester Folk Museum "Owd Butty" Welland Rally 2016 Picture Welland Rally 2017 Picture Speech House Show 2017 Picture Welland Rally 2018 Picture South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture Shrewsbury Rally 2018 Picture Marcle Rally 2019 Picture South Cerney Rally 2019 Picture |
