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Steam Heritage Guide 2026

The 2026 Steam Heritage Guide - the most comprehensive guide to Britain's transport and industrial heritage events, museums and attractions - is out now!

Steam Heritage Guide

Reflections of Living Steam

A book of stunning photos of road and agricultural steam engines, photographed around 60 years ago by Barry J Finch, of engines both on the road and at early rallies.

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Ploughing Engines at Work

First published in 1962 as a small booklet, ‘Ploughing Engines at Work’ has been revised into a larger edition – A4 landscape, 76 pages with soft cover – bringing Barry’s excellent…

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Vintage Spirit Binder

Keep your magazines in perfect condition with a Vintage Spirit Binder! Each binder holds twelve issues giving you an easy reference to each copy.

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August 2026

• The Big Aussie Foden Returns (Part 1)
• Classic Commercials at the Motor Museum
• Steam Road Haulage in the Early 20th Century
• A Weekend in Lancashire (Part 2)
• Ploughing Through ‘The Summer of Love’

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July 2026

• 70 Years of Steam: The Great Rempstone Steam & Country Show
• A weekend in Lancashire (Part 1)
• The Pioneering Spirit of Sir William Fairburn
• Steam Training with the NTET
• The Other Shillingstone Railway
• Sweet Treat Fleet

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June 2026

• Andrew Semple: A Lifetime in Heritage
• The Night Café – an insight into their life in the 1920s
• Fabulous Foden – Glyn Ashley’s 1949 Foden S18, a familiar sight around Shrewsbury
• The Patent That Never Was – weighing up Henry Pooley & Son Ltd
• The Holmes Mill Experience – an old cotton mill, now a brewery and bar but with a rare mill engine

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May 2026

• A Tasker In West Wales - a photoshoot around the Talyllyn Railway
• Lancaster’s Maritime Legacy - exploring the city's seafaring past
• Sri Lanka’s Preserved Road Steam
• Timber Loading - The Traditional Way
• Damascus To Baghdad By Bus - a pioneering bus service in the Middle East in the 1920s

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April 2026

• FREE 2026 Events Guide!
• The Story Of ‘The Danny’
• The Alan Thomas Memorial Road Run
• Tartan Treasure - a rare Ford Model T commercial
• Feeling The Heat - a day in a working foundry
• The Rushton Tractor – a rare British tractor introduced at the wrong time

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March 2026

• A January Jaunt - steam-hauled road train in winter
• Night Journey To The North – an epic lorry journey from London to Leeds during WW2
• Full steam Ahead at Onslow Park - the popular rally on the edge of Shrewsbury
• Simply The Best - the Fordson Major was the tractor for a generation
• A Unique Occasion! - taking a set of eight WW1 commemorative bells to Belgium

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February 2026

• The Wirksworth Quarry Tri-Tandems
• Boxing Day In West Sussex - the annual post-Christmas steam and vintage gathering
• A Walk Over Barmouth Bridge – exploring an unusual railway bridge
• Looking Back: Early Days At Rempstone
• Flying High – Claude Grahame-White and the early days of aviation

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January 2026

• The Return Of ‘Oor Wullie’
• A Day Of Private Ploughing
• 70 For West Of England
• Volvo’s Game Changer
• A Swiss Interlude
• Looking Back: Birmingham Newhall Street

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December 2025

• Celebrating 50 Years In Gloucestershire – the Stroud Vintage Transport & Engine Club's 50th anniversary rally
• Sentinel Remembered – exhibition at the Old Abbey Foregate Station
• Autumn Run From The Yard – steam on the road
• Another Life For A Bristol Half-Cab – an epic trip 60 years ago
• The Handcross Accident – investigating an early motor bus accident 120 years ago
• Classic Roadless – 'go anywhere' tractors

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Steam Heritage Railway Locomotive Mug

11oz ceramic mug with a glossy white finish with image of Southern Railway Maunsell S15-class 4-6-0 No. 847.

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Steam Heritage Fowler Ploughing Engine Mug

11oz ceramic mug with a glossy white finish with image of a Fowler ploughing engine.

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Steam Heritage Roller Monarch Mug

11oz ceramic mug with a glossy white finish with image of Babcock & Wilcox steam roller Monarch. Dishwasher and microwave safe.

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November 2025

• So Many Trains – Rail 200’s ‘Greatest Gathering’
• Steaming Around At Old Warden
• The Kingdom Of Caledonian Macbrayne
• Tractoring At Welland
• Borders Borderers – The Atkinson Borderer
• It’s Not About The Tractor – development of the Ferguson System

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October 2025

• The Queen Of Mills – Burnley's steam-driven Queen Street Mill
• A Reunion In Kent – the much anticipated gathering of Lambert engines
• Traditional Boats and a lot more…
• Guy Motors Of Wolverhampton
• Focussing On Welland’s Steam – the top steam action from Welland Steam Rally
• A Weekend At Blist’s Hill – road steam weekend in Ironbridge

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September 2025

• Allchin Makes Only Its Second Appearance – No.1268 had been out of the limelight for more than 50 years
• The Life & Times Of James Nasmyth
• Appleford 75 – An Appreciation
• When Ford Rescued Britain
• Normandy 25
• Somerset’s Lost Canal, Part 3

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August 2025

• Appleford 75 – The Prelude
• Somerset’s Lost Canal, Part 2
• Down On The Farm – Acton Scott Historic Working Farm
• Super Saturn – the last “Shroppie Fly”
• Quantity & Quality At The Best Bloxham In Years

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June 2025

• A Gondola In The Lake District
• A Day Out At Detling
• Road, Rail & Steam At The Great Central
• From Humble Beginnings - The International Harvester Company
• Carlisle Station, But Not As You Know It

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May 2025

• The First ‘London to Brighton’ By Self-propelled Mechanical Power
• Seddon Of Oldham
• A Trip On A Slate Train
• Britain’s First Trolleybuses
• Surely You Deal With The Naughty One – the work of the pioneer of photography
• Showman’s Engines In Their Working Days, Part Two

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