Preservation
Purchased by John Cameron in July 1966, 60009 was preserved on the now-defunct Lochty Private Railway in Fife, Scotland, travelling the 3 miles (4.8 km) of track near Anstruther.
She then started to travel all over the United Kingdom, visiting many preserved railways and hauling mainline steam specials such as the Torbay Express. It has since accumulated the highest mileage of any locomotive in the class.
After an overhaul, in January 2007, it left the Severn Valley Railway and went to Crewe for fitment of on-train monitoring recorder (OTMR) equipment. In May 2007 it was moved to Scotland to work the Railway Touring Company's The Great Britain railtour and thence to its new base at Thornton. During 2007 it hauled summer steam specials to Scarborough from York via Knaresborough, Harrogate and Leeds.
In 2008 it was continuing to work with the Railway Touring Co, scheduled to pull trains running between York and Edinburgh on several occasions during the first half of 2008. Union of South Africa appeared at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway LNER Festival 2008, along with 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley and 60019 Bittern, the first time that all three locomotives were together in preservation.
In light of the expiration of her boiler certificate, Union of South Africa arrived at Pete Waterman's LNWR Workshops at the Crewe Heritage Centre in 2010, undergoing an extensive overhaul. She returned to steam in mid-2012, hauling her first tours for the West Coast Railway Company on 22 and 23 July.
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