A historic Scottish steam engine has made a 6,000 mile journey home to help a fundraising campaign for Glasgow's new Riverside Transport Museum (link below.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6961626.stm

Locomotive 3007 arrived on Friday morning after 60 years in South Africa and once restored will become the centrepiece of the new attraction.

It has gone on display in George Square as part of an appeal to raise £5m of the museum's £74m costs.

The move from Kelvingrove to the Clyde is planned for completion in 2010.

The 15F class Locomotive 3007 was designed and built in Polmadie in 1945 and was the backbone of the South Africa Railways during the age of steam.

It pulled passenger and freight trains until 1988.

FirstGroup is patron of the appeal and is helping fund the transport and restoration of the locomotive.

Chief executive Moir Lockhead said its return to Glasgow would give new generations the chance to see an example of the "rail revolution" Scotland gave to the world.

He said: "Glasgow's transport collections are of international importance and it is fitting that Locomotive 3007 will be at the heart of the new museum."

Glasgow City Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund have committed to providing the remaining £69m of the new museum's costs.

And Salisbury still maintains the shell, platform and canopy of the Brunel station at Fisherton (adjacent to today's station, off the mysterious Platform One).  I'll dig out my photos of it.  It is now occupied by Europcar who have clad the inside with plastic and polystyrene and a really big illuminated green sign.  There is a also a cheap carpet warehouse here.

I visited the rather grand sounding Brunel Museum in London recently and it only barely mentions railways, let alone IKB's links with Wiltshire. A big disappointment - don't go out of your way to visit it, unless you have a particular yearning to learn more about Brunel Jr. and the Thames Tunnel.