Hollycombe Steam Rally (31st May - 1st June 2025)
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). There are no other pictures from the 2025 event on this site.

Click here for the overall index for 2025.

These pictures below (taken by Chris Allen) show portable engines which were NOT present when I visited the corresponding event in 2024. Hollycombe is perhaps the best place to see such engines as it has a number of its own, some of which were long used on its fairground rides although this is largely history now. Click here for the Hollycombe Steam Rally 2024 index and click here for Hollycombr portable engines 2024..

Portable Engines

	Maker	Number	Notes
	Barrows	2667/1904	Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture
	Clayton and Shuttleworth	37621/1905	"Tom Thumb"  Old Warden Rally 2017 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture
	Gibbons	477/1878	Repatriated from Australia in 1997, the only known other remains there. Bressingham Gathering 2023 Picture
	Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies	8613/1891	"Island Mor"
	Robey	40892/1923	"Elsie" and "Frankie" Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture  Netley Marsh Rally 2022 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2022 Picture
	Robey	49116/1940	Undertype semi-portable
	Ruston Proctor	1082/1967