2025 Bressingham Steam Gala
A celebration of steam power by road and rail
Sat 03 May 2025 - Mon 05 May 2025
Our annual Steam Gala will be returning this Early May Bank Holiday. Over the three day weekend, Bressingham will be hosting an array of visiting Traction Engines and Steam Portable engines, along with some associated machinery.
We will be hosting some guest locomotives on our Fen line. 'Eigiau', a former Bressingham engine, will be returning for the weekend, along with a friend, 'Biknor'. (More details below).
Our Standard Gauge engine Martello will also be steaming up and down the line all three days over the weekend.
Other Bressingham favorites, including the Waveney and Garden Line as well as our wonderful Gallopers.
The 'Carriages' cafe will be open serving a variety of snacks and treats.
Tickets are available through the link below.
Eigiau & Biknor:
Bressingham Steam Museum are delighted to host the O&K Locomotive “Eigiau” for the weekend, courtesy of the Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway. Former Bressingham locomotive “Eigiau” was resident at the museum between 1973 and 1995.
2025 marks 30 years since Eigiau left Bressingham and 20 years since the museum’s founder Alan Bloom passed away.
“Eigiau” was built in Germany in 1912 and exported new to the UK in that year. Originally named “Sunlight”, and pressed into work building Port Sunlight on the Wirral. Post Great War she moved to north Wales and was based near Capel Curig for the construction of a reservoir. It was there that she was renamed “Eigiau”. In 1928 she was sold to Penrhyn Slate Quarries in North Wales and undertook similar duties in the slate industry to Bressingham residents “Gwynedd” and “George Sholto”. In 1963 she was purchased for preservation. She came to Bressingham in 1973 after Alan Bloom arranged a locomotive swap for a larger O&K named “Helga” that was just a a little too large for Bressingham. In 1995 she moved to the Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway where she has been ever since.
In addition to “Eigiau” the Fen railway is also host to diesel Simplex Locomotive “Bicknor” (also from the Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway), sister to Bressingham’s recently acquired, former Beeches Light Railway, “Sir Gerald Scott” locomotive. The pair will also take part in the gala and are expected to head trains of skip wagons and the occasional passenger turn.
“Bicknor” was built at the Simplex/Motor Rail factory in Bedford in 1953 for the Little Ouse Water Authority near Ely. From there she passed to a number of leisure railway uses before moving to the Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway in 2010 where she has been fully restored to original condition. It’s believed that this is the first visit out from Bredgar since that full restoration.
Tesco Vouchers are Not Accepted at this Event
