Gallery: Last day in service

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This gallery shows the last day, 12 June 2005, before 73082 Camelot was withdrawn from service to start a 10-year overhaul. Left click on the thumbnail images to download larger ones. All copyrights are reserved.

Lighting up time, 73082 Camelot is prepared for the day's work. © A STRONGITHARM image
Preparations complete, 73082 Camelot moves out of the yard. © A STRONGITHARM image
Taking on water at the north end of Sheffield Park, Platform 2. © A STRONGITHARM image
Moving back to the carriage siding to pick up the train. © A STRONGITHARM image
Now back on the platform, 73082 Camelot is ready to take the first passenger service to Kingscot. © A STRONGITHARM image
The Horsted Keynes water crane can be seen reflected in the locomotive tender. © A STRONGITHARM image
Running round at Kingscot, before returning to Sheffield Park. © A STRONGITHARM image
Much later in the day, 73082 receives a wreath, to mark the last trip before retirement. Just to reinforce the point, someone has chalked "LAST TRIP" below the smokebox door. © A STRONGITHARM image
Kingscot again, 73082 Camelot runs round for the last time. © A STRONGITHARM image
End of the last run, backing off the train, ready to go back to the yard, Sheffield Park. © A STRONGITHARM image
Moving back into the locomotive yard for disposal. © A STRONGITHARM image
Fire dropped, Camelot waits to be moved into the shelter of the locomotive shed. The Locomotive will stay there until there is space in the workshop to begin the ten year overhaul. It is almost exactly 50 years since the first steaming at Derby, twenty six years since the Society purchased the locomotive from a scrapyard, and ten years since 73082 Camelot was first restored and entered service on the Bluebell Railway. © A STRONGITHARM image

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