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|image = GWR_1146_20150528GWR_1146_20210423.jpg
|caption = GWR Full Third 1146
|construc = GWR Swindon
1146 received another repaint at Bewdley in late 2000, also moving to Kidderminster Carriage Works for a lift and bogie overhaul, plus replacement vacuum brake cylinders. However it then spent most of the winter and following spring waiting to return to the jacks after being ousted by the urgent need to fit air braking to 60009 Union of South Africa's support coach.<ref>SVR News 137</ref> A further repaint at Bewdley followed between July and September 2002 as part of a programme to improve the appearance of the whole [[Carriages#Set GW2|GW2 set]] which had become a source of much negative comment at the time.<ref>SVR News 142</ref>
In spring 2014 1146 was the first of the GWR coaches to go to Bewdley for overhaul as part a programme to repair a number of them in time for the forthcoming 2015 50th anniversary celebrations.<ref>SVR News 186</ref> The overhaul, which included repainting in the Bewdley carriage paint shop in GWR 1934-42 livery featuring the 'shirt-button' roundel, was completed in time for a return to service in spring of 2015. <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">GWR_1146_20150528.jpg|Newly outshopped in 2015</gallery>
During the early hours of Boxing Day morning 2017, 1146 was one of two coaches vandalised at Kidderminster (the other being [[GNR_2701_Composite_Corridor | GNR Corridor Composite No. 2701)]]. An appeal by the SVR raised more than £10,000 to help pay for the repairs, which involved stripping and repainting both coaches over a 6-week period<ref>[https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/bridgnorth/2017/12/26/historic-severn-valley-railway-carriages-vandalised-by-yobs/ Shropshire Star]</ref><ref>SVR News 201</ref>.
