Richmond Light Railway Steam Fair, 2024
Portable Engines

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 Richmond Light Railway Charity Fair 2024 index and click here for the overall index for 2024.

2023/2024 has been significant for a number of events that have drawn together collections of portable engines, which I would consider to be the Cinderellas of the road steam world. See my reports on visits to Bressinghma in August 2023 and Hollycombe in June 2024 which featured a number of those illustrated below:

Portable Engines

		Maker	Number	Notes
		Hornsby	3444/1878	Hollycombe Rally 2024 Picture
		Marshall	44110/1905	Woodcote Rally 2014 Picture  Weald of Kent Rally 2019 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture  Weeting Rally 2022 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2022 Picture  Strumpshaw Steam Rally 2023 Picture  Bressingham Gathering picture 2023  Hollycombe Rally 2024 Picture
		Marshall	53082/1909	Sold for a blacksmith's shop in Italy. Repatriated ca 2018 Abbey Hill Rally 2019 Picture   Bressingham Gathering 2023  Hollycombe Rally 2024 Picture
		Marshall	57506/1911	Weald of Kent Rally 2019 Picture
		Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies	18523/1906	Repatriated from South Africa 2005 Hollycombe Rally 2024 Picture
		Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies	34240/1923	Hollycombe Rally 2023 Picture  Hollycombe Rally 2024 Picture
		A&W Smith	136/1860	Bressingham Gathering 2023 Picture