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Steamfest Tasmania

Locality: Sheffield, Tasmania

Address: 14 Spring St 7306 Sheffield, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.steamfesttasmania.org.au

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24.01.2022 ABC Education caught up with a 17-year-old blacksmith. He started blacksmithing when he was just 11 and explains why he loves working with his hands, problem-solving on the job, oh, and getting filthy of course!

23.01.2022 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT BAYSWATER is BACK Our feature steam and traction engine Auction which was set down for March 28 and 29th is NOW SET DOWN FOR A LIVE ...ONLINE AUCTION Saturday and Sunday 18th and 19th April starting at 9.30am with the Auctioneer selling live onto our bidding platform. The catalogue is now back online at www.burnsandco.com.au along with our conditions of sale A fantastic opportunity to purchase rarely seen Traction, Steam and Stationery Engines, Gypsy Wagon, Nautical Engines and Collectables, Railway, Enamel Signs, Oil and Petrol Collectables, Bottles in rare and desirable, Dog Traps, Industrial, Furphy, Shop and Household Collectables and much more on an UNRESERVED BASIS PLEASE NOTE: Online, Absentee or phone bidding only NO FLOOR BIDDING Deliveries by appointment only Buyers Premium on all Lot 16.5% PLEASE REFER TO WEBSITE FOR FULL CONDITIONS OF SALE

20.01.2022 Great Story for us on 7 Tasmania Nightly News

14.01.2022 Don’t click on the cat - support suburban rail into Hobart!

10.01.2022 Fellow independent Councillor Peter Garnham at the Steamfest rally grounds among new tree plantings. We were proud to fight to allocate $200,000 this term to im...prove the internal road network, drainage, surface and planting at the site. More work planned. I look forward to seeing this council facility be utilised for many and varied community events in the future. #mymaitland See more

08.01.2022 LOCOMOTIVE 3801 REVEALED! At 11.00am today, we were due to be proudly celebrating the return to service of 3801 at a special relaunch ceremony at Sydney’s Ce...ntral Station. Whilst recent global events have prevented the ceremony, our team have worked hard to finish the locomotive and we’re all very proud to reveal it to you digitally today! A big congratulations to all our volunteers and staff who have contributed to this project over many years. 3801 - a legend of steam - earned its status as a national icon against often challenging circumstances. Its' original entry to service in 1943 occurred under the cloud of World War II, and the resultant supply-chain interruptions and economic-austerity measures. Nevertheless, when the locomotive steamed out of the workshops and triumphantly onto the NSW rail network, it changed express train travel for decades and captured the imagination of a whole generation of people. For now, locomotive 3801 will be socially isolating like the rest of us, but it will be here after this crisis passes . . . and we can’t wait to bring it to you then. Please remember The NSW Rail Museum is temporarily closed until further notice. Please do not travel to Thirlmere to attempt to see 3801 as it won't be publicly accessible or visible. Stay safe everyone!

07.01.2022 GOOD NEWS STORY #18 Sheffield Steam & Heritage Centre Sheffield Steam & Heritage Centre have been slowly working away at the installation of the Dulverton Plat...form. It looks a bit of a mess now, but they're sure it will look spectacular soon! The below photo shows the first passenger train to stop at the Dulverton Station in many years albeit in a temporary location. Howard Mulvey who rescued the station from Dulverton and took it to Lorinna was fireman for the day with driver Peter Martin. Brenton Wheare who is our guard gives the green flag! (The photo was taken before COVID-19 social distancing.) "The station will be positioned on the north east corner of our grounds on an island platform which will allow two trains to pass at the station on the busy weekends," said Mr Chris Martin, Chairman of Sheffield Steam & Heritage Centre. "My wife’s family the Coles, managed the station in the TGR days at Dulverton when it was the Post Office, so it wonderful to preserve this piece of family history and for it to return to being an important part of our community," said Mr Martin.

06.01.2022 In Episode 1 of "How to Build a Steam Engine" Alex Sharphouse & Guy Martin go over the initial challenge of recreating a Steam Engine which has not been built s...ince 1931. To find out more about this project or to find out about Morris Lubricants Premium quality products head to: https://morrislubricants.co.uk/our-s/how-build-steam-engine #MorrisLubricants #GuyMartin #Talisman #SteamEngine

05.01.2022 Worth a read - a mighty effort fora traction engine!

05.01.2022 GOOD NEWS STORY #19 Foden Traction Engine Built in 1907 being restored to return to Sheffield. Brothers Vivian and Chris Martin are funding the major overhaul o...n Foden No 1264. The Foden was purchased new in 1907 by the Ingram brothers and Lamprey family from Sassafras where it worked until 1928. The Foden then changed owners several times over the years from the Von Stieglitz and Bower families, Beulah, to Mr Murfet, Sheffield and then Bernie Marshal who used it in a sawmill in Lorinna. Then engine sat idly for a number of years at the sawmill until it burn down. The Foden was then purchased by Peter Martin and driven out of Lorinna to Lilydale over a number of days in 1958. Unfortunately, within a week of the initial inspection and the engine being driven out of Lorinna, the makers plates were stolen. Peter acquired a new set of plates off a mainland Foden No 554 which was thought to be destined to be scrapped. Years later it was restored, and the attached photo shows the original plates being returned to it in 2017. Well known Tasmanian boilermaker Michael Howe from Penguin has commenced replacing the Foden’s boiler barrel and sections of plate around the firebox so that the engine, which is one of only 25 Foden traction engines in Tasmania, can return to steam when it will become a regular at future SteamFests.

03.01.2022 Like SteamFest this group is working to promote and save our operating heritage. Tonight their Facebook Page went live as a means of promoting operating heritage Australia wide - please spread the word that there are volunteers in the sector driving this new level of cooperation. Thanks to Engineering Heritage Australia for the initial coordination to get it rolling!

03.01.2022 The worlds oldest operating Fowler Traction Engine put in a big day delighting families with free rides in this superb wagon Leigh built out of the remains of a threshing drum. Thanks Leigh and Cameron Burrill.

02.01.2022 LOCOMOTIVE 3801 STEAMS AGAIN! On Saturday 28 March, we had the pleasure of steaming locomotive 3801 for the first time since receiving its shiny new coat of p...aint. During this period of social distancing and in place of last weekend’s planned relaunch, we put together this short video as a small way of recognising the thousands of volunteer and staff hours put into the project. You can also now view images and more footage of the locomotive in its shiny green livery at www.thnsw.com.au/3801 We look forward to inspiring a new generation of rail fans across NSW with 3801 in the not too distant future!