No. 4555 stands in the back of the shed at Cranmore on August 31 with various equipment attached for examination of the firebox.
PETER NICHOLSON
THE hire of Small Prairie No. 4555 by the East Somerset Railway (ESR) has not got off to an auspicious start, having already been withdrawn for repairs after only a handful of steamings.
The 2-6-2T arrived at Cranmore in March at the start of a two-year hire from the Dartmouth Steam Railway, and arrived almost straight after the completion of an extensive overhaul carried out at Paignton and Tyseley Locomotive Works.