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===Second period of SVR service===
[[File:Locomotive_Parade,_Rainhill_1980_-_GWR_0-6-0_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1587488.jpg | thumb|300px|right|3205 at Rainhill in 1980]]3205 was one of 5 SVR steam locomotives (out of a total of 31 at the event) which took part in the grand parade at the [[Rocket 150 ]] celebrations at Rainhill in May 1980.<ref>SVR News 56. The event programme suggest the total was 30 steam locomotives.</ref>
3205’s second period of SVR service ended at the end of 1984 with firebox issues, the boiler inspector prescribing "''flange rivets out!''"<ref>SVR News 74</ref> By that time the locomotive had recorded a total of 10,541 miles in traffic. A planned static appearance at the GWR 150 exhibition at Swindon in 1985 fell through when the event was cancelled and although generally mechanically sound, the locomotive was stored awaiting removal of the boiler for repair. In late 1986 it was announced that the owner had decided that 3205 would be leaving<ref>SVR News 82, 84</ref> and 3205 left the SVR in March 1987, initially to the West Somerset Railway before returning to the South Devon Railway in 1998.
===SVR Gala appearances since===
3205 made a return visit in May 2000 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the opening of the SVR in 1970, and made another welcome return visit to the SVR as a guest at the Autumn 2010 Steam Gala, having completed a major overhaul in May that year.
