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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In 2017 it was announced she would be withdrawn from active service and from 2019 be housed permanently in a new 'Farming and Railway Visiting Centre' at Balbuthie, St Monans with [[61994 The Great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> 60009 achieved several hundred railtours in preservation, and details of these may be found on dedicated railtour sites such as [http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/trf/trfindex.htm Six Bells Junction] and [http://www.uksteam.info/tours/index.htm UK Steam].
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