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The following years saw the Great Marquess on a regular stint of main line railtours, interspersed with periodic returns to the SVR for repairs and working on the SVR itself. At the end of 1997, shortly after being repainted into BR livery as 61994, the locomotive suffered a failure of the crank axle and joined the SVR’s ‘long term’ repair queue.
In April 2003 the locomotive was bought from the family of the late Earl of Lindsay by John Cameron. Plans were announced for an overhaul and repair of the driving axle at the SVR. However it transpired that the overhaul could not be completed in the timescale required by the new owner, and The Great Marquess left the SVR in spring of 2005.
In March 2010 the locomotive made a return visit to the SVR, in BR Black livery as 61994, for the spring ‘Reunion’ Gala.
