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[[File:50007_Hercules_20170618.jpg |290px|thumb|right|50007 Hercules at Kidderminster TMD in June 2017]]
In 2013, the locomotive was sold to a private owner and relocated to Washwood Heath, where it was repainted from GWR Green to BR Blue, and re-named Hercules.<ref name="EEArchive" /> [[The Class 50 Alliance]] acquired the locomotive in November 2016, being fitted with the relevant equipment for mainline running. Early 50007 was moved to the SVR on 16 January 2017 and that year saw her at [[Diesel Depot|Kidderminster TMD]] where her generators were removed, sent away for overhaul and refitted, before planned haulage of a number of railtours in 2017 and 2018 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the class.<ref>[http://www.fiftyfund.org.uk/index.php/our-locomotives/50007-hercules The Fifty Fund - 50007 Hercules], accessed 22 November 2016</ref>
50007 became the first locomotive to use the newly installed lifting jacks in the Diesel Depot when it was lifted for maintenance on 4 November 2017.
