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Late summer 2006 saw 60009 move to Crewe to be fitted with OTMR equipment, after which owner John Cameron expressed the wish to base the locomotive again at Thornton Depot near his Fife home,<ref>SVR News 155</ref> where she would join his other locomotive [[61994 The Great Marquess]].
In 2017 it was announced that 60009 would be withdrawn from active service at the end of the existing boiler ticket and be housed permanently in a new 'Farming and Railway Visiting Centre' at Balbuthie, St Monans with [[61994 The Great Marquess]].<ref>Steam Railway Magazine 27 January 2017</ref> Planning consent was refused and a revised application, excluding the railway aspect, was agreed in November 2019.<ref>[https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/1020904/east-neuk-farm-visitor-centre-given-go-ahead-but-without-the-locomotives-previously-proposed/ 'East Neuk farm visitor centre given go-ahead but without the locomotives previously proposed', The courier.co.uk, 15 November 2019] (Retrieved 7 January 2020)</ref>
After ending main line service, 60009 continued to work at the East Lancashire Railway until being withdrawn in October 2021 with boiler problems, some three months before the planned end of ticket. The locomotive was moved into the Bury Transport Museum as a static exhibit in May 2022. Planning permission for 60009 & 61994 to be housed inside an existing building at Balbuthie was granted in October 2022.
