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D1048 was built at Crewe Works in 1962, and was released to traffic on 15 December in maroon with small yellow panels. It was allocated to Cardiff Canton and, except for a month at Bristol Bath Road in early 1963, stayed until 1964 and a move to Newton Abbot. The following year it made its final move to Laira. The locomotive was the first Western to be painted in blue with full yellow ends on BR on 14 November 1966.  It featured on hauled the Western Lament railtour on 24 February 1977<ref>[https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/70s/770224rp.html Six Bells Junction]</ref>, one of the final Class 52 railtours, and remained in service until (with classmate 1010) shadowed the Western Tribute farewell tour two days later, having made it to the last day of Western operation on BR, on 26 February 1977.

D1048 worked on the North Yorks Moors Railway when first preserved, where on 18 March 1979 it hauled the Pickering to Goathland leg of The Western Recall railtour, the inaugural run of D1048 in BR green.<ref>[https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/70s/790318rp.htm Six Bells Junction]</ref> It spent from late 1980 until 1983 stored in Horwich Works before moving to the now closed Steamport museum at Southport. It moved to become resident on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway from July 1988 to the summer of 1991. D1048 spent time in the early 1990s at the Railway Age, Crewe, owned by [[The Waterman Railway Heritage Trust|Pete Waterman]].

It arrived at the Midland Railway CentreDuring this period it attended BR open days including Horwich (1980), Butterley in March 1997Laira (1988) and Crewe Basford Hall (1995).

It attended D1048 arrived at the Laira open day Midland Railway Centre, Butterley in 1998March 1997.

In 2023 D1048 was moved by rail from the Butterley to the SVR for static exhibition during the [[Diesel galas|Autumn Diesel Bash]]. Immediately afterwards its owners gifted the locomotive to the [[Western Locomotive Association]]. The Railway allowed D1048 to remain for the time being whilst the WLA carried out a full assessment and consulted its membership about returning the locomotive to working order, if it were to be possible<ref>[https://westernlocomotives.com/and-then-there-were-three-d1048-gifted-to-wla/ WLA announcement 8 October 2023]</ref>.