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Bonnie Dundee exhibited in Ravenglass station in April 2015.

Bonnie Dundee exhibited in Ravenglass station in April 2015.

Originally a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge 0-4-0WT built by Kerr Stuart in 1900 for Dundee gasworks, the engine was bought by Ian Fraser around 1960 (who took his case to build a locomotive shed in his garden to the Secretary of State for Scotland) and donated to the railway in 1976. After a rebuild, it emerged as an 0-4-2T in 1982, with the side tanks from 'Ella', and was used on winter and other lighter trains. 1996 saw the locomotive rebuilt again with a new boiler and reversed Southern valve gear replacing the original inside Stephenson's valve gear, this time incorporating a tender. It was withdrawn from traffic in 2005 awaiting an overhaul, and visited the Windmill Farm Railway in 2007-10 on static display. The engine has since been moved to the workshop at Old Hall Farm, Bouth, and has just finished restoration to working order. The engine is painted in the Bronze Green livery of the North British Railway. This locomotive now operates at the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway.