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{{Infobox diesel loco
|image = Hugh llewelyn D444 (5581607177)50044_Exeter_20170408.jpg|caption = D444 (50044 Exeter) on a mainline tour at BristolKidderminster, April 2017
|construc = English Electric Vulcan Foundry Works, Newton-le-Willows
|wheels = Co-Co
==50044 Exeter in Preservation==
Following withdrawal, 50044 was sent to London’s Stratford depot for component recovery and later offered for sale as suitable for scrap only. The Fifty Fund were seeking a locomotive as a source of spares, but finding that few components had been removed, successfully purchased 50044 for preservation. The locomotive has been cosmetically de-refurbished, to appear as it did when released to BR from English Electric's Vulcan Foundry works. Since its preservation 50044 has worked both on the SVR and on the main line.
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File:Hugh llewelyn D444 (5581607177).jpg|D444 (50044 Exeter) on a mainline tour at Bristol
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Exeter was repainted in un-prototypical two tone green and rededicated by the Crew of HMS Exeter at Kidderminster in 2007. '44 has subsequently been repainted in BR Blue.
