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Here are some photos of the decorated pre-production samples for your delectation.

Having pre-ordered you won't be asked to make a payment until the ploughs are released, at that time you will get a payment link where you will be able to combine the separate orders into one delivery. Hope that helps

4421 will be hauling its first ever passenger trains over this coming weekend 3rd and 4th September at the Kerr Stuart gala at Foxfield Railway alongside Kerr Stuart 4388 and either Beyer Peacock 1827 or Marston Thompson and Evershed No3. Also featuring the restored North Staffordshire Railway coaches and the first public appearance of Midland Railway Picnic Saloon No 348 which is undergoing restoration with an eventual return to traffic. Advanced booking is required for 4421's trains departing at 9.30am both days. Tickets valid all day. https://foxfieldrailway.co.uk/event/kerr-stuart-vintage-weekend/

4421 will be out and about at the Foxfield Railway over the weekend of 3rd 4th September alongside KS4388. This is to mark 4388’s official entry into traffic and a celebration of Stoke on Trent engineering

I wonder if it will even get past Birmingham.

Hi David, A quick correction to the caption on J7010 at Shackerstone. The loco on the left is WG Bagnall 'Florence No2' and in the centre is WG Bagnall 'Lamport No3'

The full size model in the throes of the start of the boiler overhaul. Intention is to have her back in steam for her 150th birthday in 2024

Really? Have you any idea of the amount of paperwork involved? It’s not just loco crews, there are records required for all sorts of rolls such as safety critical maintenance, machine tool operators, Pway inspections. As others have said it is becoming a full time job for even the smallest of organisations. I don’t disagree that it’s a dangerous hobby and needs to be taken seriously but I suspect there will be many more improvement notices issued to heritage lines with regards to the maintenance of competence and associated paperwork.

Unfortunately the paperwork involved with competence records is becoming more and more involved and the ORR inspectors more and more rigorous about it - perhaps to the extent it may be the nail in the coffin for some smaller heritage lines that have neither the time nor the manpower to keep it up to date. Hopefully it isn't and a degree of proportionality will be applied, although that seems unlikely in the current climate.

Also this one of the first movements with a potted history of the locomotive, produced and narrated by our Museum Manager who was both disappointed to lose one of his exhibits and excited to see it working.

I'm not sure if the radiator would have been in that position with the McLaren-Benz engine in, and also the engine controls may have been different. The two levers on the left of the radiator are the forward reverse selector and the gear shift between low and high gears, and just below is the foot treadle for the clutch. The far left lever on the ratchet is the transmission brake. She also moved under her own power again on Sunday and has now been brought out of the museum for work to return her to traffic which may include some cosmetic work to return the loco to an 'as built' look with the exhaust silencer on the bonnet and the bell.