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[[File:Hugh llewelyn D444 (5581607177).jpg|thumb|200px|right| D444 (50044 Exeter) (Wikimedia Commons)]]
{{Infobox diesel loco
|image = Hugh llewelyn D444 (5581607177).jpg
|caption = D444 (50044 Exeter) on a mainline tour at Bristol
|construc = English Electric Vulcan Foundry Works, Newton-le-Willows
|wheels = Co-Co
|power = Diesel Electric
|status = In service
|locono = 50044
|othernos = D444
|designed = English Electric
|locotype = '''Class 50'''
|built = 1968
|years1 = 1991
|events1 = Purchased by Project Defiance
|years2 = 2012
|events2 = Diesel engine damaged
|years3 = 2016
|events3 = Reentered service from overhaul
|length = 68ft 6"
|weight = 115t
}}
50044 Exeter is a BR Class 50 diesel locomotive.
==BR Class 50==
Fifty English Electric Type 4 (later BR Class 50) diesel locomotives were built by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry Works plant in Newton-le-Willows between 1967 and 1968. When built they were numbered in the D4xx series. They later became BR’s Class 50, being allocated TOPS numbers in the 50xxx series. The class was nicknamed “Hoovers” because of the distinctive sound of the inertial air-filters with which the locomotives were originally fitted.
