Welland Steam Rally 2024

Welcome to Ross-on-Wye Steam engine society 58th annual Welland steam & country Rally held only a stone throw away from the bottom of the great malvern hills on the 26th,27th,28th of July 2024 . Hats off to voluntary organisation that has pulled off another exceptional Steam Rally/working weekend with that much going on over the 3 day rally your bound to miss some of the action. However due to the layout of the land if your at the top Heavy Haulage you can roughly make out what your missing out on in the living history field & vice versa. Although ive still managed to miss out seeing the Caterpillar D9 for the last 3 years of coming!
With over a thousand exhibits from vintage plant machines digging, tipping, bulldozing, levelling grading the land out in the living history field along with a pair of Fowler ploughing engines & Tractor's dragging, ploughing, & rolling along sides them. Also the Military section with re-enactments have grown again since last year with this year show casing more than just dugout trenches. The Steam working area again home to there very own steam crane moving the various lumber around with aid of a Railway track Marshall as-well, it also featured the usual rack saw bench, cross cut saw in action along side recycling Heston square bales for the purpose of demonstrating the old harvest tradition of Thrashing all powered by glorious steam. The mani stage however at an event like this is always the Playpen or heavy haulage section where this year i met up with ‪@MuddyLakeEngineering‬ who showed me his camera equipment which looked rather professional filming the various machines lugging up various heavy loads up the hill side so we the paying public can really see what grunt thees old titans really have. With all the other spectacular Vintage Tractors, cars & motorcycles to look round. Another of the favourite areas is the Vintage funfair which is mostly generated by Steam Showman's engines which really come's to life when it gets dark showing off there fairy lights & whistles underneath the mammoth firework display which seems to get bigger every year. & not forgetting the return of Ragsdale's toaster offering Crumpet underneath the stars this year who could say no to that.