The fitters look impressed with their newly overhauled loco.

Peter Kerslake says "Looking absolutely magnificent and reviving memories of Great Eastern days B12 61536 and the three friends on the footplate make a splendid picture. It was withdrawn before that year as the last of the Scottish series was condemned in 1954.
Surely one of the most handsome of designs the Great Eastern original class S69s totalled 71 in number when construction was completed in 1921, the odd number including an additional replacement for 1506 which was destroyed in an accident at Colchester in 1912.
Ten more were ordered from Beyer Peacock in 1928 and in 1931 twenty five were built for use in Scotland with nine or so being rebuilt and reclassified as B12/4s".