MODEL engineers are getting all steamed up over a star in the making for a popular miniature railway.
Work on building a locomotive is at an advanced stage and the vehicle could be ready to haul visitors around the grounds of Stockton Borough Council's Preston Hall Museum, Eaglescliffe, next year.
Mike Aslin, spokesman for the Teesside Small Gauge Railway, said: "We have the main frames - they have got an undercoat - and the driving wheels are assembled. The boiler comes along later, but it's beginning to take shape."
The engine is a seven and a quarter inch Manx Northern 0-6-T Caledonia.
Members of the railway club finance their hobby by offering rides around a 1,500ft circuit of the museum grounds, making a nominal charge.
The miniature railway is close to the trackbed of part of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which has been preserved as a footpath through the park.
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