Gauge 1 Coal Fired Locomotive
Built by David Baker

During my childhood in the south of England there were two magnificent machine that I loved to see. One was the giant Queen Elizabeth as she slipped silently away from her dock in Southhampton Water, the other was the Bournemouth Belle. I pestered any adult in sight to be taken across the New Forest to watch the fastest express on the Southern roar past on the long sweeping curve between Beaulieu Road and Brockenhurst. The joy of those moments were the reason that I asked David to build this engine. While in the UK to pick her up I was also able to ride on, and photograph her sister ship 35005.

- Andrew Macpherson