BR Standard Class 5 73082 Camelot explained

Powertype:Steam
BR Standard Class 5 73082 Camelot
Builddate:June 1955
Builder:Derby Works
Uicclass:2′C h2
Leadingdiameter:3feet
Driverdiameter:6feet
Length:62feet
Width:8feet
Height:13feet
Axleload:19.7LT
Weightondrivers:58.05LT
Locoweight:76LT
Tendertype:BR1B
Operator:British Railways
Powerclass:5MT
Fleetnumbers:73082
Withdrawndate:19 June 1966
Disposition:In Service at The 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. It was outshopped from Derby Works in 1955, and worked on the Southern Region of British Railways. In August 1959, it received the name Camelot from withdrawn Urie King Arthur Class engine no. 30742.

Withdrawal

In 1966, the locomotive was sent to Woodham Brothers for scrapping. It 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.

Restoration and operation on the Bluebell Railway

73082 returned to steam in 1995 after a protracted overhaul at Sheffield Park and put in almost ten years of service on the Bluebell Railway until withdrawal for a ten year overhaul in June 2005.

Camelot returned to service on the Bluebell Railway for the second time on 25 October 2015.[1] On 18 September 2018, Camelot made its first visit away from the Bluebell Railway, being hauled to the West Somerset Railway for their Autumn Steam Gala, being hauled over the mainline by Class 37 diesel 37 668, returning on the 1 October in the same way.

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  1. Web site: Operational Locomotives .