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2023 repaint and intermediate overhaul
No 70 then featured in the four-day special event between 2-5 June held to mark the Queen's platinum Jubilee, taking part in a naming ceremony at Kidderminster on the first day. On Saturday 23 July 2022 the SVR hosted a leg of the Queen's Baton Relay as part of the final build-up to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The baton travelled from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth aboard a special train piloted by 'Elizabeth II', double headed with visiting Class 20 20142 owing to fire risk resulting from the exceptionally hot weather at the time.
{{As of|2022|1012}} the locomotive still carries the lined purple livery but has reverted to its own name and number. Planned for 2023 is firstly a repaint into inauthentic SR wartime black, followed by a valve and piston exam and intermediate overhaul to start in the autumn. This will include necessary boiler work to secure a new '10-year' boiler certificate.<ref>SVR News 220</ref>.
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