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Saturday 21 September 2013

The Great Steam Plough Club Challenge

Bit late posting this one as I only just got around to putting the pictures on the computer. Last weekend, I went to the Great Challenge organised by the Steam Plough Club. My friend took his set of Fowler ploughing tackle and we spent the weekend in abysmal weather ploughing while the engines were sliding all over the place! Unfortunately, we only came 3rd in our class - but we have improvements to the plough to be made which should allow us to move up our ranks.

One engine that really stood out to me was this early Fowler single No. 2861 of 1876.



And a picture of one of the engines in our set.

The Engineer.

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