Statfold Barn - Road, Rail and Ale Gala (13th - 14th September, 2025)
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 2025.
Statfold is perhaps best known for its museum and associated two foot gauge railway. However it also has regular road steam events such as this one which Hugh Sykes attended on the Saturday. He has sent me just a few pictures as he lives 'locally' but I have added recent appropriate pictures taken elsewhere from my archive which will hopefully serve to inform potential visitors to similar events in the future.
The way these reports are constructed it doesn't take too long to edit up this 'hybrid report', it's a classic copy and paste job to insert a picture of the most recent time I have encountered the same engines. However, there's not a great deal I can add by way of a general description!
I believe that the Savage centre (573) and organ (579) engines on the gallopers in the fairground museum were working but I do not have a picture of these.
The anonymous engine is apparently Allchin 1373 repatriated from Australia in the late 1970s.
Steam Rollers
General Engines
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Portables |
Maker |
Number |
Notes |
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Elvaston 2018 
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Marshall | 43090/1905 |
Repatriated from Chile Formerly at the now closed Bury Transport Museum, now based here. |
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Marshall | 71396/1919 | Formerly at the now closed Bury Transport Museum, now based here. |