Camelot in British Railways Service 1955 - 1966

73082 on the down boat train, 2.30 pm. ex-Victoria, at Petts Wood Junction, 23rd July, 1955. © P HOOPER

73082 at Dover Marine, 2nd August, 1955 © L HANSON

73082 passes Herne Hill on the 8.35 am Victoria to Ramsgate, June, 1956. © D W WINKWORTH

Brixton, c 1957, probably on a Kent Coast service. UNKNOWN

73082 "Camelot" coming off the Salisbury line at Worting Junction with a Summer Saturday relief train, May 1962, J OATWAY.

73082 Camelot with a parcel van train at Micheldever, May 1962. J SNELL.

73082 "Camelot" at speed on the Down Slow line at Basingstoke, on a Waterloo to Southampton Docks Boat Train, September 1963. © G R SIVIOUR

Camelot at Didcot 1964 DAVID ANDERSON

Proof that Camelot did work on the Somerset and Dorset. Green Park Shed, Bath, 1964, A NEWMAN.

Camelot at Axminster, possibly November 1965, UNKNOWN.

Here is a set of images of 73082 Camelot working on the Kent Coast and out of Waterloo on the Southern Region, during its mainline career before withdrawal in 1966.

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The Bluebell Railway is closed until the end of November. The Railway will reopen for the "Santa Specials" in December, when "Camelot" will be out on the track, hauling trains. Our Sales Stand is attending the National Festival of Railway Modelling, at the East of England Arena & Events Centre, Peterborough; on 7 and 8 December. More information is posted on the Events Page here, and on the Bluebell Railway's "Today at the Railway" Page, which is linked from our Events Page. Photo: Passing Standards at Horsted, 29 September, 2019. JONATHAN HUGHES.

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