
This well shot film looks at the restoration of the last ‘Little Giant’ built, Class 30 Count Louis, a stalwart on the Fairbourne Railway for many years. After some archive film of the loco at at Fairbourne, the film moves to the TMA Engineering works where Brett Rogers explains some of the features of Count Louis’s restoration, notably were changes had to be made for the modern era. There follows a, frankly, too long chapter of Count Louis’s first steam trials on the Evesham Vale Country Park Railway, in the company of an older ‘cousin’, Barnes Atlantic Joan, who actually accounts for 50% of this chapter. The final chapter is of the loco’s rededication by co-conspirators Michael Whitehouse and Brett Rogers. Nice record, albeit a bit protracted, of the return to steam of an historic engine.