Steam Heavy Haulage

Join us on this special journey of transporting not one but two Lancashire boiler 12 miles to the Chester-Le-Street steam rally using 2Road loco's Fowler "Kingfisher" & Mclaren "Captain Scott" using a Scammell 45 tonne heavy haulage trailer for the first load with Brian Kell "Dangerous Brain" & Cris Bainbridge manning "Kingfisher", a young lad called Conway Bainbridge on the trailer brakes, & Will Woodward with Jack Robinson aboard "Captain Scott". A Crane 40 tonne trailer was used to transport the second load with the mighty 12 tonne 8nhp Mclaren on the the front with Will Woodward & Sam Hodson, with Jack Robinson manning the gears & dangerous Brian following the lancashire boiler to chester le street. The both trailers used to belong to PICKFORDS at some point in history with second trailer Taking in part in the 2022 Beamish heavy haulage special which was captured by John Mills of ‪@doubleboost‬ and can been visiting the link below    • Steam Heavy Haulage . Beamish Museum 2022   With only a small handful of folks doing Steam Haulage such as the Horsham Traction Company;    • Heavy Steam Traction   & Alex Sharphouse;    • Talisman Tour 2021: An epic steam-powered ...   have recreated these impressive scenes of Englands era of steam Haulage which there is a book called the "THE BIG BOX" by T.Mctaggart which is an excellent book for anybody who wishes to see & learn more about other impressive loads by these massive iron giants mainly undertaken by Norman E Box. Fowler No.14888 "Kingfisher'' 8 NHP R3 Compound road loco which was originally a 2 speed built new for the Ministry of munitions in 1917 & spent its first year baling hay in the Home countries. After the end of WW1 in November 1918 a vast number of engine were sold. A batch of 10 Fowlers were sold to Foleys of Bourne Lincolnshire one of which was "Kingfisher" The 3rd owner was Thomas Gee of Wrydelands Farm, Thorney who was a Threshing contractor used "Kingfisher" to power his Clayton & Shuttleworth threshing drum. After Mr Gee's death in 1929 the engine & drum went to peterburgh market where both sold and were bought by H Gibbons & Son's "Kingfisher" for £82 & the thresher for £52 it was later then sold in 9th December 1952. The Ministry order 50 R3's No.14888 "Kingfisher" & No14893 "Midnight" are the only 2 left in in road Loco form as the rest have all been converted into Showman's spec either in there working life or in preservation. We Reckon the Lancashire Boiler weighs about 20 tonnes & the Scammell trailer weigh about another 10 tonne + plus another 17 tonne when "Windrush" starts lagging. The 45 tonne Scammel Heavy Haulage trailer we can see carrying the boiler was owned & operated by th famous Pickfords & then sold to Thompson boiler works for similar work as can be seen in the video. Boiler no.130 Manufactured by John Thompson & co in 1927 is 30ft long & 7ft 6" in diameter with a working pressure of 120 psi, because of its weight it had to be lifted onto the trailer with a mobile crane. The boiler came from Kew Bridge Steam Museum. Bringing up the rear is Mclaren Road loco "Captain Scott" which was used by Whitlock's of conisborough for quarry & haulage work before been being sold to various owners for threshing & haulage purposes.