No.5000 Sister Dora

Sister Dora was initially an exercise for engineering apprentices under the tutelage of West Midlands engineering lecturer Arthur Glaze, himself a prolific manufacturer of miniature steam locomotives. When the company went bankrupt, Arthur accepted the part-built machine in lieu of wages, and finished the machine in 1981. It ran primarily at the Walsall Steam Railway until that line closed in the early 1980s, and it went to the Great Cockcrow Railway in 1988. In 2021 it was bought by Matthew Scrutton and it still runs at the GCR today. Thanks to Mattew Scrutton