A new support bracket for the repositioned front vacuum pipe.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The new brasses for the motion.
Photo: Adrian Strachan

We lifted the loco slightly to get better access to some components.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The various removed items of rear tender drag-box:
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

And the hole from whence they came!
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The new tender rear drag-box coupling components (and our smokebox petticoat).
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The tender frames lifted to give better access for painting the underside.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The center section of the tender frames now in black gloss.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

Some of the freshly painted brake rigging components and the tender bogie pivot safety bands.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

Not the clearest of photos but this is the motion being tidied up of the support brackets following remedial machining. The offending weld marks can be seen on the underside of the two large rods.
Photo: Adrian Strachan.

A new rear pony truck lifting safety bracket being manufactured.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

Our two cowcatchers after being cleaned and primed. Some assessment is still needed as to repair and modify them to fit round the lowered couplings.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong