John Cameron, owner of LNER A4 No. 60009 Union of South Africa, has announced plans for the locomotive in 2023.
At one of the recent An Evening With John Cameron, which has been held at the Bury Transport Museum, where 60009 Union of South Africa has been on display since May 2022, Mr Cameron announced that his application for a museum on his farm in Fife had been approved.
With permission granted by Fife Council Planning Committee, John Cameron will now move the A4 to Fife in the middle of January 2023, with haulage arrangements now in place.
Expected to join 60009 Union of South Africa at the new museum is 61994 The Great Marquess.
The new museum is expected to open to the public in 2023.
Chairman of the ELR, Mike Kelly, said “On behalf of the ELR I want to thank John for his trust and confidence in the ELR in looking after his iconic locomotive for the past several years.”
As original owners retire their locos get passed on. Think the 9f at the north Norfolk, 5231 and others now part of the Hoskin empire. Every respect to Mr Cameron for letting us share his locos for 50 years, but they should have been passed on, not stuffed and mounted.
Good luck with the museum venture be good to see the Loco’s home to Fife.
If the lorry comes over the Queensferry Crossing, the new bridge, No9 will be THE only steam loco to pass over all three bridges over the Firth of Forth.
No. In 2021, the new build 600mm 040 Sipat built by North Bay Railway Engineering of Darlington travelled over the bridge on the way to Lathalmond Railway just north of Dunfermline.
But UOS has also passed over the other two bridges.