Running the newly-restored Ivatt 2-6-2 tank engine #41312

21st January and 28th January 1999


Just lit, in Ropley Yard 
21 January 1999

Morning mists have cleared.   
Ropley, down platform, 21 January.

Peter Hutchinson is interviewed  on the footplate on 28th January 1999 by the BBC for Songs of Praise (21st February).   He was explaining why a vicar is on the footplate of a steam engine on his days off

Mick Austin, Driver.  28th January 1999

Waiting at outer home signal, Alresford, 28th January 1999
during a day of filming for the BBC

See also, for details of the restoration  ....   

Bubs with Ivatt gudgeon pins
Beading boiler tubes; hydraulic & steam tests
Superheater header preparation
Cladding
Red oxide roll-out


 

Other pictures of Ivatt 2-6-2

#41312 at Windsor and Eton with The March Hare excursion


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