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===Third boiler ticket===
In June 1992, fellow Manchester Ship Canal locomotive Hudswell Clarke 680/1903 No 32 'Gothenburg' [[http://www.svrwiki.com/Steam_Locomotives_visiting_the_SVR_for_galasSteam Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas#1992 | visited the SVR]] for a ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ event. Following this successful visit, the WILPG agreed that 686 should be overhauled, converted and registered as ‘Thomas’ for use in future such events. The overhaul required further modifications including new tanks, steam heating, bunker rails to improve coal capacity and a new chimney and smokebox. Life as ‘Thomas’ began in March 1994 at Didcot Railway Centre, where the locomotive was specially registered to allow a movement over BR metals from the delivery point at the nearby power station.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books | Shaw (1998)]] p. 43.</ref>
Visits to numerous other railways followed. 1998 marked the centenary of HE 686. The locomotive began the year still in use as a roving ‘Thomas’ and was photographed by David Cooke at the East Lancashire Railway in May of that year (see gallery). By October, 686 had been repainted in the more appropriate livery of Manchester Ship Canal No 14 and, as part of the celebrations, re-visited the East Lancashire Railway (see gallery) in the county where she first worked and the Middleton Railway in Leeds, the city where she was built.
