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In conjunction with the ongoing restoration of the Manx Northern Railway locomotive Caledonia which returned to service in 1995 to mark the centenary of the Snaefell Mountain Railway, with which it assisted in the construction, a booklet was produced in 1994 to promote the event and raise funds for the Supporters' Association and more specifically the projects fund of the Mainland Area Group.
Penned by Supporters' Association member and key figure in the area group Gordon F. Eves, this booklet which took a similar format to the quarterly Manx Steam Railway News, this booklet featured a colour cover showing the locomotive at Castletown Station in 1967 when it carried the short-lived spring green livery (she was repainted into an assimilation of the original livery to haul a Supporters' Association special train to St. John's in 1968) whilst the rear cover showed one of the locomotive's memorable steam trials on the 1 in 12 gradients of Snaefell Mountain in the winter of 1994.
The booklet was firstly advertising to members via the magazine and subsequently went on general release at all the railway's sales outlets as well as island bookhops priced reasonably at £2.95 with funds to the Supporters' Association. A limited print run of the booklet ensured that it has become a highly desirable piece of miscellanea to the I.M.R. collector, and very few are still available from the sales outlets on the Supporters' Association-owned Groudle Glen Railway still today, though these remain in short supply.
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