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==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. It arrived from St Leonards on 6 May 1994 with [[BR Class 50 50031 Hood|50031 Hood]].<ref>SVR Stock Book, ninth edition</ref> 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
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.
In 2012 a problem with oil temperature on a mainline railtour damaged 50044's diesel set. A replacement English Electric 16CSVT has been secured from Portugal (ex CP 1807) which was fitted with adjustments made to bring it in line with UK specifications. Start up was anticipated in early 2017.<ref>[http://www.fiftyfund.org.uk/index.php/our-locomotives/50044-exeter Fifty Fund 50044 page]</ref> On 10 September 2018 50044 returned to passenger duty ran under its own power having received the overhauled engine and overhauled main, ETH and auxiliary generators.<ref>Severn Valley Diesels Official Facebook Group.</ref> It received a bogie overhaul in the [[Diesel Depot]] over the winter of 2019/20.
===50044 Exeter on the main line in preservation===
|data-sort-value="18/10/2008" | 18 October 2008||||Rail Blue Charters|| Manchester Piccadilly to Minehead||With 50049 Defiance and 57601 || <ref>[http://www.hondawanderer.com/50044_50049_Magor_2008.htm Hondawanderer.com/Martin Loader Photography] (Retrieved 21 January 2018)</ref>
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|data-sort-value="9/5/2009" | 8 9 May 2009||The Cambrian Mountaineer||Spitfire||Bristol to Aberystwyth |||| <ref>[https://www.renownrepulse.com/gallery/other-class-50-s/preserved-class-50-s-on-main-line.html Renown Repluse Restoration Group website] (Retrieved 21 January 2018)</ref>
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|data-sort-value="3/9/2011" | 3-4 September 2011||The Snowdon Ranger ||PTG Tours||London Euston to Holyhead ||With 57304 Gordon Tracy || <ref name="EEOrg">[http://www.englishelectric.org.uk/f819756767 Englishelectric.org website] (Retrieved 21 January 2018)</ref>
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==See also==
