CHARITY STEAM FAIR A GREAT SUCCESS
Old Glory was invited to attend the annual Charity Steam Fair at Jeremy Martin’s extremely impressive private 2ft gauge Richmond Light Railway in the heart of Kent on Saturday 15 August. The sold-out ticketonly event was a triumph for all involved with good weather an added bonus. We look at the rail steam section here.
Jeremy Martin’s family are steeped in miniature and narrow gauge railways, plus road steam, having brought back to the UK a raft of engines in past decades.
He even owns one of my favourite types of 15in locomotives, the 4-4-0 Cagney tender locomotive which so successfully pioneered miniature railways, particularly in North America. Remarkably this one came from a Peruvian circus and had been converted to i/c power, the engine placed in the tender and the prop-shaft driving right through the firebox hole!
