PHOTO REPORT FROM THE FOOTPLATE OF LOCOMOTIVE 6695 AT THE SWANAGE RAILWAY
17th February 2007
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Photo Report from Andrew P.M. Wright - dated 24th February 2007
Official photographer & press officer, Swanage Railway.
Photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright. To view a larger version of any photograph on this page, just click on the thumbnail photograph and subsequently use the Back button on your browser to return to this page. Photos on these pages are low resolution versions. Full resolution photos are available for media use

On the footplate with the crew of Locomotive 6695. The driver is Pete Frost of Corfe Castle (right) and the fireman is Bill Crutcher of Hordle near Lymington (left).

Andrew P.M. Wright has supplied nearly 120 photos of late 1920s Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle-built GWR Taffy Tank No. 6695 during the current Thomas event at Swanage - both footplate shots and lineside shots. All these photos were taken on Saturday 17th February 2007.

GWR Taffy Tank No.6695 arrived at a fledgling Swanage Railway from the Barry scrapyard in South Wales in the summer of 1979. For more details of the rebuild and return to service. please see our dedicated pages by clicking here.

On the footplate with the crew of Locomotive 6695.

On the footplate run from Swanage to Norden and back, the driver is Pete Frost of Corfe Castle and the fireman is Bill Crutcher of Hordle near Lymington. The guard was John Stopher of New Milton.

On the footplate with the crew of Locomotive 6695.

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To visit the other pages of photos in this report on 6695 on the Swanage Railway, please click on the navigation links below.
- To visit the first page of photos please click here.
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