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Celebration of Steam - Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - Looking forward to 2009

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:57:49 +0100

Held the weekend before Portsmouth FC won the FA Cup at Wembley, the third Celebration of Steam in mid-May proved a really good day out. A great success with 6,000 visitors, special guests and brilliant sunshine.

Visitors to the two day event brought perfect weather with them as they were transported to the age of steam thanks to a host of road locomotives, showmans engines, steam fairground rides, a ride-on railway and miniature engines.

This year, the event, which was popular with both enthusiasts and families, also welcomed the special appearance by childrens classic characters, Ivor the Engine and friends who entertained the crowds with a sing-along with the Grumbley and District Choral Society.

Visitors also enjoyed:

Amongst full size Steam was a Burrell 3746, S4 Sentinel from the Isle of White, Foden Lorry and pole trailer, A 1901 steam crane "The Great North" lifting the 12ft logs onto the Steam Mill, which turned the logs into tidy planks, Burrel SRL 2979 'The Princess Royal', Foden Wagon, Foden Tanker 13316, Crane Engine 3197, Not to mention a number of miniatures running around - including Woodford's Gallopers and the magnificent Leach & Overington organ.

HMS Warrior 1860 as it came into steam with its engines rooms in operation.

Model Boat displays on the Mast Pond and steam railway & model boats exhibition.

A daily parade which took place from Victory Gate and included all of Ivor the Engine's friends including Idris the dragon, 1919 Garrett Steam Tractor 'Dorothy' and a 1911 Stanley Steam car.

A pint of real ale from Oakleaf Brewery.

A brass band performance in the sunshine by HMS Victory

A huge carousel fairground ride.

For kids there was Punch & Judy show on HMS Warrior 1860's jetty. As well as Kidsrome farm with farm animals, such as ponies, lambs and donkeys.

Craft stalls throughout the site

So now for next year...

Planning is currently in progress for next years Celebration of Steam at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - we are hoping to confirm next year's date in the next couple of weeks but in the mean time for more information and pictures see Celebration of Steam and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

You can even watch a video HERE from 2007's Celebration of Steam

Traction Time have moved

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:10:00 +0100

Traction Time have now completed the move to new, more reliable servers.

More importantly we are now also using our true domain name, www.tractiontime.co.uk so please update your favorites as the old domain will be discontinued shortly.

Steam Event Listings for 2008

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:30:00 +0000

It's getting to that point of the year again where everything seems to start going very slowly in the steam preservation world unless you are lucky enough to own an engine and can hide in a shed working on it throughout the winter months so it's about time we started looking forward to the New Year and the begining of the 2008 Rally Season.

Bedfordshire Steam and Country Fayre 2007 Photos Now Online

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100

Just letting you guys know that a new image gallery containing pictures from the 2007 Bedfordshire Steam and Courty Fair are now on-line.

Click here to enter the image gallery

All comments will be gratefully received so please leave any remarks you have, thanks

EDIT: Engine details are now complete.

Pickering Traction Engine Rally 2007 Gallery Now Online

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:50:00 +0100

Just letting you guys know that a new image gallery containing pictures from the 2007 Pickering Traction Engine Rally are now on-line.

Click here to enter the image gallery

Engine details will be on-line soon.

www.tractiontime.co.uk

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:40:00 +0000

We have a new, easier to remember website address for this site taking effect immediately.

http://www.tractiontime.co.uk is now live and currently redirects to the original site but in due course the whole site will operate from this new URL.

New Traction Time Video Portal

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0000

I have decided to create a portal for all members videos of Steam Machinery and Events for everybody to enjoy

If you have a video you would like to share with the community there is now a central place to store them

Come and see the Night Glow at Dingles

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:13:33 +0000

On Saturday 2 December the Fairground Heritage Trust are hosting a one-off pre-Christmas event at Dingles, in the new museum building only.

The rides will all be illuminated - two driven by Burrell Showman's engines - "Rajah" and "Star", the others by Scammell or other suitable vintage sets. We will also be playing suitable music (rock'n'roll/60s/70s).

Site Downtime

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:40:00 +0000

You may have noticed if you have visited us over the last 24 hours that the site has been offline. This was due to an attack on our webhosts which caused corruption to our database.

All information has been restored from the backup and everything should be working fine again now but if you spot any problems can you please inform me so I can get the errors sorted out.

Thank you

Fowler B6 Locomotive Found

Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:00:00 +0000

Shoved in a corner and forgotten until now.

Narromine Shire Council in New South Wales has uncovered a rusty old Locomotive in a shed.