Aug 22, 2019 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Military, Transport
Tilly and friend. Heavy horses at the 2019 Great Dorset Steam Fair, at Thursday’s friendly ploughing match. More photos from the Steam Fair can be seen further down the page. Thursday was the first day of the Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019. The weather was...
Aug 23, 2018 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Military, Transport
Thursday 23rd August was the first day of the 2018 Great Dorset Steam Fair. This year is also the 50th anniversary of the annual event. Judging by the queues to get into the site each day, the world’s largest heritage and cultural event is going to exceed...
Aug 19, 2018 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Transport
Yesterday I spent several happy hours at the 2018 Steam Up at Drusilla’s Inn, Horton, Dorset. The annual Steam Up event traditionally marks the beginning of the Great Dorset Steam Fair. A large number of traction engines, steam engines and other vehicles...
Aug 20, 2017 | M35 Photography News, Transport
The Great Dorset Steam Fair (aka The National Heritage Show) is the world’s largest heritage and cultural event, held annually at Tarrant Hinton, in Dorset, UK. The event showcases Great Britain’s national industrial, agricultural and leisure history, and 2017’s...
Jun 13, 2017 | Latest Photographs, Transport
Tuesday 13th June 2017 will go down in history, with the arrival at Wareham Railway Station of the first train from Swanage to Wareham in 45 years. The railway line linking the towns was ripped up in the summer of 1972, during the ‘Beeching Axe’....
Mar 31, 2017 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Transport
Swanage Railway Spring Steam Gala 2017 will be a three-day “Bulleid Bonanza”, marking the 50th Anniversary of the end of “Southern Steam”. The Dorset steam train event will take place Friday 31st March – 2nd April 2017. ...
