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I assume the 1987 changes were reverted in 1989, not 1979.
In May 1978, 50049 was named Defiance after the Royal Navy's torpedo school.
In 1987, 50049 was involved in an experiment to use Class 50 locomotives on freight trains. To that end it was re-numbered as 50149, equipped with modified Class 37 lower-geared bogies, and out-shopped in trainload grey livery with Railfreight decals. Based at Plymouth Laira, two years was spent working china clay trains in Cornwall and heavy stone trains from Devon quarries to London. By 1979 1989 the locomotive has reverted to 50049, being withdrawn from service by BR in August 1991.
==50049 Defiance in Preservation==
