“He couldn’t take the engine with him.” Coulter believed the father and son built the model based on “actually drawings” of the Ab608. “I wanted to get it back together because it means something to me. I worked with George Martin for five years. “If I didn’t do it, it may have got lost in the scrapyard. It could have been lost forever.”
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A two-metre-long model Ab608 railway engine and tender is on display at the Pleasant Point Railway and Museum. Coulter poured 500 to 600 hours into restoring the model to its original state, doing so in “three blocks” – the first when he bought it, the second after his children left home, and the third in lockdown.