A sleeping lion appears above the roaring furnace

as 'Henbury' stokes up for a day's labour.

Locomotive engineering was a vital industry in Bristol from the late 1830s to the 1950s. Henbury, built at a Bristol company called Peckett's, joined a large fleet of steam locomotives at work in the main part of Bristol docks at Avonmouth in 1937.

When diesel engines took over in the Sixties Henbury was withdrawn from service and was restored to good condition. After several years' of neglect she began to give brake-van rides, and she took part in the opening ceremony of the Bristol Industrial Museum in 1978.

Since then, Henbury has not only made railway history as the first preserved steam locomotive to pull freight for British Railways, but has also pulled hundreds of thousands of visitors along the quayside at Bristol with help from her companion Portbury.