Isle of Wight Steam Fair

Enjoy the atmosphere at the Isle of Wight Steam Fair with steam trains, road steam, vintage tractors, and vintage vehicles including cars, commercials and military.
A well organised event not to be missed.

[@frantisekgajdos]

Amazing machines!😍 Well thank you!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad to hear it brought back some memories.

[@em4steam896]

Great video! Having been to several steam shows in the USA. I hope to attend a few steam fairs in the UK some day. As an old threshers saying " Steam is King!"

[@pauldeacy9989]

Myself and my brother travel on scooters to the scooter rally which runs on the same weekend. We always do the steam on a Sunday and really look forward to it. A great surprise to find this video!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

We noticed there were scooters everywhere. Hope you had a good weekend and glad you enjoyed the video.

[@AndreiTupolev]

That big yellow Ward LaFrance wrecker is a splendid thing

[@anthonygallagher1397]

When I seen the bing of coal it reminded me of my 17 years as a house delivery coal man, nothing worse than a Monday morning with a hangover and 2 or 3 railway wagons of coal coming into the coal rea , usually each wagon held between 12\14 ton, that had to be bagged out for a certain time or the merchant had to pay a demurrage fee, sometimes in the cold winter's we used get years ago,we would have to light fires underneath the wagons that had travelled up to Scotland from mid and northern England and had frozen solid inside the wagon so when you opened the door nothing came out as the coal was frozen solid, as was the coal bagged the previous day in the old Hessian bags,it was like trying to empty bags of sticky toffee into the coal bunkers haha.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for sharing your memories. I bet shovelling coal kept you fit!

[@anthonygallagher1397]

@@Casterton-Vintage yes when I think about it now, I remember even loading the lorry myself, swinging 20 bags on one side, getting up on the lorry and packing them from the other side and back down and the same again till I had loaded whatever I neaded for the run while another guy was bagging, I was never muscle built, always skinny,but as you said it kept me fit haha.

[@charleshart6992]

Another excellent video

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks again!

[@truckman4175]

Takes me back haven’t seen Robey village queen for years since it was in Yorkshire always was a quick engine

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Village Queen now live in Rutland but she was on holiday on the Island.

[@geoffmott6356]

I rode her footplate when she lived in Pickering, owned by Duke Brewer.

[@petergardner2334]

avery good video

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks

[@fergywurst]

Music covered the sound of the engines running. Gave up watching this one.