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Work to date comprises a nicely made tender with neatly flanged and rivetted platework; a set of wheels, awaiting tyres; front axle with perch bracket, dynamo, part-machined cylinder block and a smokebox assembly with chimney.

The silver soldered copper boiler, by the estimable John Ellis back in the days of Bishop-Ellis, is a masterpiece of coppersmithing. Featuring pressurised hornplates - formed with the compound curves characterising the Burrell road locomotive crank box - it's one of the finest examples of boilermaking we've seen in the last twenty years.

Complete with drawings, a club test certificate for the boiler and quantity of receipts for expenditure to date.

If you need some inspiration to get out in the workshop and fire up the lathe, this Thetford Town we sold in 2017 remains the yardstick by which we judge all others.