Watering over - Great Central Railway
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Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 28 Jan 2012
The two young crew members have just topped up the pannier tanks and are now climbing down from their lofty perch. The locomotive is Drummond designed M7 No. 53 built in 1905 and based at Swanage. It is carrying wartime Southern Railway black livery.