THE last remaining member of a famous family of steam engines came back to the city where its maker was educated on Bank Holiday Monday.

Former Hereford Cathedral School pupil A H Peppercorn's 'Blue Peter', dated late 1948, was at Hereford station for an hour to pick up water.

Built in Doncaster on the designs of Peppercorn, a locomotive superintendent 1946-49, it worked between Aberdeen and Ferry Hill, then Dundee and Tay Bridge before retiring in 1966.

It was adopted by the children's programme Blue Peter in the late 1960s.

Now restored to full and magnificent working order, it is the only functioning example of the Peppercorn Pacific Class.