Hello there i was wondering whether you were going to any other steam rallies this year and if you are which ones as I was at the Shrewsbury steam rally and I was part of steam apprentice club. I was one of the people on the engines in the arena. Anyway keep up the good work!

great rally, how did you find the Somerset hospitality?

How did you get that?? I’m looking for 1 at the moment

Great video. Shrewsbury really do the grand parade properly. I was driving Pepperpot the Wallis simplicity roller

Have you tried banking the fire overnight? I’d be interested to see how that goes

Wow I've never seen such a huge variety. What is the biggest steam engine show? If it has more variety than this im 100% going. Keep up the great work ✌️

lovely poem about the engineering company's who made steam engines in England and when we where the work shop to the world

the scrollwork on foremost's flywheel is really something. Don't think i've seen one painted like that before, might have to copy it for my 2" 👀

Nice seeing you Dan when I was with my Maclaren grate video

Great job video there you were in a good spot to be filming those old steamers, I was there on Sunday 🎥👍🏻🇬🇧

What a stunning parade Dan! Thousands of hours of restoration work there in that ring. Magic! One for you to consider next year. West of England steam engine society will be having there 70th anniversary rally on 15th16th17th august. The hope is to have 70 engines on site and a road run over to the north coast of cornwall. Great video Dan 👍

Hey can you watch my part 1 of Shrewsbury part 2 up tomorow,and tell me how to improve. should i put the exciting things in part 1 or 2? Also can i use your idea of top 5 engines? if you could give me a shout out that would be amazing.

Whoo number 2. Happy to take you for a spin sometime. Will's miniature is spectacular (he also owns the full size counterpart)

We were there on Monday, the dryer day of the two. So glad you called it Shrewsbury and not Shrowsbury 😁👍🏻

What a fabulous trip! She’s a lovely engine, always admire her when I see her at the rallies Local to me in Witney too

Definitely a good size for the road. Our 8nhp Burrell single is a big engine on the road. It’s quick as we converted it to 3 speed. But you’ve got to be on the ball on the smaller roads.

Luck man, i would give my right arm to have a go on a traction engine.

At Whitby a couple of years ago there was a 9" I think burrell, it was enormous - about the same size as a full scale tasker. It was comical seeing it go round the field with all the other miniatures.

Another absolutely fantastic video again thanks Dan! I love it when i see the notification for your channel pop up! Great work mate, well done, you should be proud of yourself! 👍😊

60 - Fairford Steam and Retro Show Steam on the LOVE LOUIS SHIRLY

loving the high perspective. 60 videos now ... Wow :)

Impressive line up of full size engines! And lot of variety in the miniature section too. Another well run rally by the look of it. Great video Dan 👍

Great video as always 👍

Oh dear more full size action 😁 you know it will all end in a depleted bank account 😅

Tree almost took your camera.

What a lovely uplifting video,brings back so many memories…

Cirencester looks to be a lovely old town! Burrell steams along very happily on the road, I bet you found that a really enjoyable day Dan. Bigger leavers but same principles I suppose! Great👍

Jw's 6nhp engine if I'm not mistaken.? Lovely engine as is his rd loco Independence. Great video.

Thanks lovely video Dan, reminds me of aged parents taking us to Rempstone and Elvaston rallies. Maybe too north for you guys ;)

Hello steam on the road it's Owen Tom's oldest kid Luke would know me from hatches we went to South cerney to I have my own KZbin channel now and I'm uploading some South cerney videos

Just bought a 4" Burrell from the UK, and am having it imported to the US. Really wish we had steam rallies like the one's you all enjoy over there. It's not that we don't have them, they're just farther apart and fewer in number. Not as much interest in road steam over here.

Oh dear how long before theres a full size on your drive 🤣you need to stop hanging about with the full size boys 😉We might give that one a go next year as it doesnt look too evil to get to for us, although is a good 200mile round trip

I love your videos! I just got a 1946 3” freelance traction engine, your videos really hype me up to get her going!! Thank you❤

Well there are things I like at rallies and things I do not. I like of course watching old engines and the socializing with people, preferred when you are a group of friends, go there. Chatting, drink beer and so on. I just was on German or Dutch steam rallies, so these are minor compared with British, also even steam rallies there are much more old diesels than steam... What I do NOT like: Organs, all the time these organs is unnerving. People standing in the way all the time, where you want to go through and see something (If you are chatting around just stand aside, so other people can go there). Then there are these bored woman/mothers often with little children, complaining all the time (Yes I understand the weekend is family time, but could they not give their husband a "day off"? Instead, they are passively aggressively and bored walking around, putting everyone in bad mood). These women are trying to get attention by chatting up their husband about other family topics while he is looking at a steam engine. Otherwise they have 24/7 time to tell him! Lastly, I was once on rally where smoking cigarettes was forbidden, because fire hazard and air pollution (protection of non smokers). Yes generally makes sense BUT not on a rally with traction engines, these are a fire hazard also and polluting more than any cigarette.

Interesting experiment thanks for showing it, we have a 4cd over here in east anglia that is run on logs

From my maths at 400/Ton and 50% less heat per Ton they are more expensive than coal.. interesting solution tho.

Great to see that they looked after you well at boconnoc! Like you say “ good friendly atmosphere and help when you need it goes a long way to enjoying a rally. Great you met James! I have had some fascinating chats with him over the years, he is just a mine of information and a true gentleman.

Interesting with the Pellet-firing...

Awesome.

that is a beautiful engine, and clever how it all works too

That was a very awesome video.

What scale is the aprentice?where are the kits from if its not scratch built?

The only thing I dont like is those infernal steam sirens. Something I will never say at a rally😂😂

Hi Dan, absolutely lovely to meet you and talk to you at last agreed the engine man’s bar was an absolutely amazing idea more rally’s need to do this! But lovely to meet you and see tilly running hopefully see you again next year! Robin

Dr Busker makes a rally for me Dan. Also, a decent road run.

I like a rally where you can drive around as long as you like and where everyone is friendly and happy. There isn’t a lot that turns me away from rally’s so I can’t say anything against. I loved boconnock this year. It was well controlled and I wasn’t told off for driving around on the roads until 10 pm on a 4” Burrell road loco 😂. I hope to see you next year

Hi I'm thomas boylings brother benjamin boyling I was walking around with the blonde boy kaylen thank you for coming I had the fowler tiger tractor here called firefly hope you've had a great time

was good to catch up to you, and I'm glad you enjoyed it down our part of the world! and always a bonus that the weather mostly behaved

makes a good rally is if there is plenty of space to drive the engine around and we have clean water and some decent coal what breaks the rally is when the entitled full sizers from tinkers park take all of the coal so we cannot steam

The great thing with having a miniature you have transport thus the beer tent can be 1 mile away for all it matters. As for what makes or doesnt make a rally I think where you are placed as base camp often makes a massive difference. Theres a rally a event we dont do now as we always ended up being placed opersite shall we say undesirables. You just had this feeling if it wasnt bolted down it would quietly vanish, and the whole time it was "whats that worth mate" 🙄 Also being near the generators of the food concessions isnt ideal. Bit like the West Oxen one you did where you seemed to be over the road from the spit bangs, that would have driven us a bit mad, but then saying that if we end up based in a poor location we tend to get out and just chuff about more. Totally appreciate though the dificulites organisers have in setting these shows up mind.