The front buffer and inside valve spindle covers.

The driver's view of the controls.

The TPWS will be mounted on the bright metal plate in the centre of the picture. The controls need to be within easy reach of the driver, sitting or standing, and yet causing no obstruction to the view out.

Another view of the TPWS plate before final adjustment.

Half of the cladding, and many of the pipes and controls have been stripped from the cab ready for the restoration of the boiler.

Modern encroachment in the form of a dump valve on the braking system.

The blue cladding gradually being removed for the boiler restoration.

The firebox outside wrapper.

Every one of the hundreds of stays denoted by the bolt heads in the silver area of the picture must be laboriously drilled out and replaced before the boiler can be tested.

Another view of the boiler stays.

Tender water level gauge.

The safety valves.

These are on their way to the severn valley for shortening. This piece of GWR equipment makes the engine too tall for use on Network Rail. The valves will be shortened and different springs used to achieve the same effect.

View along the top of the engine during accurate marking-out of the centre line for the final cuts on the steel cladding.