The ultimate family-friendly event!
The 2026 Rally is a family-friendly, two-day event and takes place on the August Bank Holiday, Sunday 30th August and Monday 31st August in the beautiful setting of Onslow Park, Shrewsbury.
The event has a variety of over 1200 highly-entertaining attractions that 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.
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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, and there are miniature steam engines, a highly popular Craft Marquee and 6 acres of Trade Stands.
The Golden Age of Victorian Farming has pride of place on the Working Field where timeless traditions, such as a magnificent team of beautiful shire horses, harvesting with reaper binders, and chaff cutting with a threshing box take place. Both pre-1940 and post-1940 tractors of various marques will be on view on the showground, with over 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! Tickets can be purchased online from www.shrewsburysteamrally.co.uk There is free car parking and catering facilities on site.
