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TASMANIA’S FINEST - STEAMFEST 2023

The success of the festival is testament to the community’s resolve to live with Covid and to celebrate the good things in life and our region, The community and businesses supported our endeavours, and the weather gave us three beautiful days which brought in a crowd estimated to be around 8,500 people.

A memorial first this year was bringing a second 2ft, a 1924 Fowler No. 16203 0-4-0 to the site. comes from Tullah (an hour from Sheffield) in its splendid black livery and the home Krauss was proud in its green livery, the pair provided rides for approximately 3,000 people.

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