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Monday 8th July 2024 09:30-17:30 West Sussex, BN18 9LT
Vintage transport action at Amberley Museum in West Sussex with up to ten road engines in steam
Join us for a day of vintage transport photography at Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre in West Sussex with a host of visiting road and agricultural engines in steam plus additional railway and road action
£80.00
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About this event
With grateful thanks to Nick Pidgely and the staff and volunteers at Amberley Museum, we are pleased to be able to offer perhaps the most ambitious road and rail steam event we have yet attempted. Featuring a number of visiting road steam engines, we will have a full day of photography around the site with many scenes. We aim to have at least one living van in use (and hopefully more) plus a number of other period props to help recreate the days of steam in the 1920s and 1930s.
The event now has eight road steam engines confirmed as taking part including three that have never previously featured on our charters, plus a superb steam car and various other aspects of vintage transport. Amongst the highlights, we will have two engines in steam together that have not been seen together for some twenty years, the Marshall engine "Victoria, Empress of India” and the Fowler "Albert” which both worked for Walter Seward’s thriving threshing and haulage business from 1886 and 1895 respectively until the 1930s. "Albert” has been based in France since 2002, and was repatriated from France in April 2024 following the death of its owner; the two traction engwill be reunited at Amberley in July. This is building towards being our best heritage transport event at Amberley for many years.
Amberley Museum is set in a former chalk pit in the West Sussex countryside. It was created in the 1970s to meet the need for a centre in the south east of England to conserve and demonstrate the industrial history which was rapidly being lost, and the County Council was persuaded to purchase the site at auction to stop inappropriate development. Since then it has grown into a major open air museum with its own railway, significant collection of road transport exhibits and many displays which reflect the industrial and archaeological past across a 36-acre site.
Event requirements
Equipment
- Spare batteries
- Camera
- Lenses
- Camera protection - rain covers etc
Other things you should bring
- Snacks
Knowledge
- All levels welcome
Fitness
- Low
