The little Beyer-Peacock is finished at last. The Westinghouse brake casting from Alan Gibson was waiting for me when I got back from my hols (you can't see it as it's on the other side!), so that was cleaned up and fitted along with the associated plumbing. Branchlines chopper couplings were also added. It was then primed, filled, reprimed and painted.

There is some doubt as to the colour it carried while at the C&VBT but the concensus is that it retained the LMS crimson lake livery it had while at the NCC. The NCC itself was formed in 1903 as the result of the Midland Railway of England taking over the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway and became part of the LMS in the 1923 grouping.

After a week to let the paint harden, it was duly weathered today and taken out into the garden to be photographed as the sun tried desperately to break through the clouds.