Mist hanging over a still canal at dawn beneath a wooden footbridge, moored narrowboats fading into the haze with woodsmoke rising from a stove chimney.
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Grand Finale Steaming Weekend at Crofton Beam Engines

📅 Sat 26 – Sun 27 Sep 2026📍 Crofton Beam Engines (Crofton Pumping Station), WiltshireSN8 3DW

The final steaming weekend of the 2026 season, with both Cornish beam engines in steam and pumping water to the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal from 10am to 4.30pm. On the Saturday evening a separate ticketed steaming and stargazing session runs from 6.30pm to 10pm.

What’s on

  • Last chance to see the engines in steam in 2026
  • Evening steaming and stargazing on 26 September
  • Oldest working beam engine in the world
  • Canalside setting on the Kennet and Avon
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