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Kerrier: Engines to Parade Once Again

The steam parade of Trevithick Day looks set to return to the streets of Camborne next year.
Meetings between the police, Kerrier District Council and the Trevithick Day committee have suggested that the problems that prevented the parade from taking place at this year’s event look set to be resolved.
The parade was a noteable absentee at this year’s Trevithick Day after police said that the show of 40 steam engines moving slowly down Trelowarren Street posed a threat to safety.
This year engine drivers staged a protest by parading on the route that the engines should have taken wearing black arm bands. Spectators were also disppointed at the ban.
However, there will be a new route for the engines that will actually ‘go up Camborne hill’. The proposal is that the engines will park in Basset Road, travel along Church Street, down Wellington Road and to the roundabout at Tehidy Post Office. From there the engines will trace Trevithick’s famous Camborne Hill run of December 24, 1801 and travel up Tehidy Road and Fore Street before returning to Basset Road.