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Actually you can barely see 8723's number plate, but 3020 and 9207 are plain enough.

As a bonus, there's also a picture of 8723's manufacturer's plate, from the good old Vulcan Works in Newton-le-Willows. My uncle was a draftsman there, and used to take me to the works sometimes and allow me to climb on the partially completed locomotives when I was a small child in the late 1950s and early '60s - ho health and safety in those days!

Photos by John Ashworth 12th September 2009

Where were these taken? Is it the museum?

No, this is the main Kenya Railways workshop, just across the marshalling yard from the museum. This is G shed, a two road shed which is just long enough to take the three operational steam locomotives. The class 87 is stored in the open behind 3020. The class 92 is one of three or four diesels standing on a road next to the shed. The second road inside the shed doesn't seem to have any permanent inhabitants but I've seen diesels standing on it from time to time and also seen it used for shunting.

After my years of working on locomotives out in the open air in Friends of the Rail's depot in South Africa, it's a real pleasure working on 3020 under cover in a shed.

Are you working on the loco? What do you do? Is there sotofa club or a Kenyan Fotr branch!

Nathan, see http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... =26&t=5310 and http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... 348#p17348

I'm just helping out. There's no club. The loco belongs to the museum. I was getting withdrawal symptoms, hands shaking, DTs, etc from being away from a steam engine for too long. They want to get this loco running again, so I offered to help in any way I can. Cleaning and inspecting the loco seemed like as good a way as any to start...