Work on the rebuild of Eddystone - November 2001

News item - dated 4th December 2001 - Photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright

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Here is a selection of Andrew P.M. Wright's photographs taken of work on Southern Locomotives Ltd's rebuilt West Country Bulleid Pacific Eddystone. The photos illustrate the scale of the enginnering effort being applied in the Swanage Railway's Herston engineering works to return Eddystone to service.

The photos show boilersmith Dave Mitchell with beard, working on the firebox. Peter Frost is the worker in the blue boilersuit and blue bobble hat and also to be seen is Alan Jones.