Preservation

The choice to preserve a locomotive is an easy one to take but a difficult one to follow through to completion. With three locomotives the exercise has become a major operation with teams and individuals playing coordinated bit parts to produce working locomotives on a regular basis. The Fund needs volunteers so we encourage you not to be shy and to contact us whatever your background, we can always find job or project to involve you in. 

This Gallery has been split up by locomotive; Hood, Ark Royal, and Exeter.

All three locomotives lined up in St. Leonards Railway Engineering Ltd's shed near Hastings in the Summer of 1992. This was where all the early work was undertaken in comparative shelter compared to the drafty yard at Kidderminster.

Photo Joseph Burr

Four years later the trio are lined up in Kidderminster yard.

Photo Jon Dunster