‘West Country’class Bulleid Pacific No. 35028 Eddystone is back in action on Swanage Railway metals following a three-year £350,000 overhaul.
Rescued from the Barry scrapyard, where it languished for 22 years after being withdrawn from BR service in 1964, restoration of Eddystone began in 1986. Completed by Southern Locomotives Limited (SLL) in 2003, the locomotive hauled its first Swanage Railway train in the autumn of 2003. Withdrawn in 2014, work started on its major overhaul in 2018.