In late 1993 following the enormous success of the Year Of Railways and invited by manager Robert Smith to once again become involved with the railway following a long spell restoring the Groudle Glen Railway from 1982, Association volunteers were invited to undertake cosmetic restoration of a stored locomotive and quickly it was decided to select No.6 Peveril which had been out of use since August 1960.  In early 1994 it was removed from the old carriage shed into the workshops where work began in earnest, local members and those from the Mainland Area Group spending several weekends preparing the locomotive; a livery of Indian Red was decided upon and this was applied by the early spring, with lining out expertly applied the following year by Alex McBride from the workshops.  The completed locomotive was first displayed at the head of an Association special train in July 1994 for photography purposes and thereafter it was stored in the running shed and emerged for various photographic events before entering the museum.