BR Standard Class 5 73082 Camelot

BR Standard Class 5 73082 Camelot
73082 on shed at Sheffield Park.
Power type Steam
Builder Derby Works
Build date June 1955
Tender type BR1B
Career British Railways
Power class 5MT
Number 73082
Withdrawn 19 June 1966
Disposition Under overhaul at Bluebell Railway

No. 73082 Camelot is a preserved British Railways Standard Class 5 4-6-0 based on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, England, and owned by the 73082 Camelot Locomotive Society. She was outshopped from Derby Works in 1955, and worked on the Southern Region of British Railways until 1966, when she was sent to Woodham Brothers for scrapping. In August 1959 she received the name Camelot from withdrawn Urie King Arthur Class engine no. 30742. She languished at Barry Docks until 1979 when purchased by the 73082 Camelot Locomotive Society, and moved to the Bluebell Railway for restoration alongside Battle of Britain Pacific 34059 Sir Archibald Sinclair. She returned to steam in 1995 after a protracted overhaul at Sheffield Park and put in almost ten years of service on the Bluebell until withdrawal for overhaul in June 2005. She is currently undergoing an overhaul and is expected to return to steam again in 2012 or 2013.

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