It's how many people in the Atlantic group remember it. In that form it was: * The very last Atlantic running in BR service. * Was used on many railtours in the late 1950s, including over the Bluebell line. * It was this loco's scrapping in 1958 which led Brighton enthusiasts to realise that something must be done to save something of the history of the LB&SCR before it was too late, and led to the first meeting of what became the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society in 1959. So it is significant in the Bluebell's own history. * Since the project plan to reconstruct this locomotive was announced 23 years ago, all the fundraising has been on the basis that it would be in this livery. Undoubtedly it will carry other liveries in subsequent boiler certificates.

Other countries have running 4-4-2 Atlantics as well.

Probably steam testing

Bluebell

I regularly slung some cash in that chimney which stood in front of that unpromising big lump of boiler, round behind the engine sheds at SP. TBH, I seriously didn't expect much to happen, but as any cash would've been used on the Bluebell anyway, that never once bothered me. Then they got started ..... and witness the magnificent result. What an absolute stunner!!! Such a shame lack of drawings (among other things) means it'll never now be joined by a Billinton K class mogul. Truly 'the one that got away'. Ho-hum .... can't win 'em all.

She aint so little!

@@JohnDavies-cn3ro So I'm beginning to find out.

Surely it's not a restoration it's a new build

@@maly2ts408 Isn't it a new-build with bits of an original?

The restoration of Beachy Head's whistle and regulator handle are magnificent... and the re-construction of the rest of the loco around them helps give context! ;-)

Little? These things shifted the heaviest passenger expresses into London from the coast for two decades. 💪💪💪

Don’t forget Corris no 10

The Beachy head locomotive is finally finished