It doesn’t seem like five minutes since the end of the running season, and yet Apedale was enlivened by the beginnings of the Santa season – the inevitable hunt for all the bits of the Grotto.
Meanwhile, outside the workshop, was one of the more elusive members of the fleet – the Hunslet “Twusk”.
“Twusk” achieved brief fame by becoming one of the first locos from the Scrapyard in the Sky – also known as Gloddfa Ganol – to operate after the dispersal of that collection.