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

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

Camelot at Axminster, possibly November 1965, UNKNOWN.

Camelot at Taplow, January 1966, © M CRANSWICK.

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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Camelot is going to the West Somerset Railwaay on 17 September. The next Sales Stand will be at the London Transport Depot Museum Open Weekend, Acton, on 22 and 23 September (not confirmed). There are more details on the "News and Events" Page. Photo, STEPHEN DESMOND.

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