With more than 1,200 exhibits attending each year, the County of Salop Steam Engine Society’s 2025 Rally is a fantastic family-friendly two-day event that promises to delight visitors to the beautiful setting of Onslow Park, Shrewsbury.

The 2025 Rally takes place on the August Bank Holiday, Sunday August 24 and Monday August 25. Shrewsbury Steam Rally is ‘Shropshire’s Largest Steam & Vintage Vehicle Rally’ and is considered to be one of the best in the UK. Organisers say it is Shrewsbury’s ultimate family event where visitors can step back in time to experience the vintage thrills and tradition of yesteryear.

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The event will offer fun for the whole family. (Shrewsbury Steam Rally )

The event has a variety of highly-entertaining attractions that are pure vintage charm and they include the wonderful spectacle of working steam engines and beautifully preserved classic vehicles from yesteryear. On each day the ‘Grand Parade of Steam’, is a highly-popular and majestic cavalcade of Showman’s engines, traction engines, Sentinel waggons, and steam rollers. The parade showcases a superb variety of fabulously decorated steam-powered vehicles that circle the arena set to nostalgic music and poetry – a memorable highlight of the two-day event –, and with a final flurry of their whistles it is always an exciting spectacle!

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The event is on the August Bank Holiday weekend. (Shrewsbury Steam Rally )

There is a packed Arena Programme on both days; where spectators can enjoy moving convoys of historic commercial vehicles, including buses and fire engines; vintage cycles; working horses; vintage tractors; pre-and post-World War II cars; classic motorcycles; and perambulators - with the Main Arena being the centrepiece of the event.

The Olde Time Fair offers lots of traditional fun, with steam-powered rides for all - accompanied by vintage fairground music. There are miniature steam engines, a highly popular Craft Marquee and six acres of Trade Stands.

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Shire horses will be present in the Working Field. (Shrewsbury Steam Rally)

The Golden Age of Victorian Farming proves ever-popular; and pride of place is the Working Field which demonstrates timeless traditions, such as a magnificent team of beautiful shire horses, harvesting with reaper binders, and chaff cutting with a threshing box. Both pre-1940 and post-1940 tractors of various marques will be on view on the showground, with more than 240 tractors in total. Visitors can take a step back in time, explore original farming skills – and literally live and breathe the past. Simply pure nostalgia at its best! Weekend camping is also available, and tickets can be purchased online from www.shrewsburysteamrally.co.uk.