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|image = 1450_201403091450_20150320.jpg|caption = 1450 and autocoaches at HighleyBewdley in 2015

|rating = GWR: Unclassified, BR: 1P|axleload = GWR: Unclassified

|length = 29ft 11"11in|weight = 41t 6cwt|power = 13,900 lb|pressure = 165 lb/sq in}}[[File: 1450_20140309.jpg|thumb|300px|right|1450 and autocoaches at Highley]]

Post-1945, coal shortages led to plans being put forward to convert a number of GWR engines to oil burning. 12 of the [[GWR 2857 Heavy Goods Loco | 2800 class freight engines]] were modified and renumbered in the 4800 series. As a result the entire 4800 class was renumbered 1400 to 1474 by BRthe GWR in 1946.<ref>[http://www.railuk.info/steam/getsteamclass.php?item=1400 Rail UK Steam Loco Class Information -- GWR 1400]</ref>

4850 was built in 1935 to lot number 288 and first entered service at Oxford in July 1935.<ref>[http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/042_1400det.htm Great Western Archive]</ref> It was re-numbered 1450 by BR the GWR in 1948 1946 and re-allocated to Slough in April 1951. While based there it was photographed in 1955 at Bourne End working an autocoach service to Maidenhead.<ref>''Signalman’s Reflections'', Adrian Vaughan, 1990, p68</ref>. A return to Oxford in September 1959 was followed by further re-allocations to Exeter (July 1962), Taunton (November 1963) and Yeovil Town (October 1964) before a final move to Exmouth Junction in February 1965. 1450 was finally withdrawn from service by BR in May 1965,<ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=102303&loco=1450 BR Database]</ref> after a working life totalling 823,012 miles.

1450 spent her early life in preservation at the Dart Valley Railway (now the South Devon Railway). She was eventually purchased from there and re-located to the Dean Forest Railway by [[Pull Push Limited]], her present owner, of whom Mike Littleis a director.<ref>[http://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/gone-not-forgotten/1450 SDR web site], retrieved 25-01-January 2015.</ref>

1450 arrived at the SVR from the DFR in March 2014, initially on hire for the year. Subsequently 1450 has been listed as part of the home fleet. Although not powerful enough to haul service trains, the locomotive is regularly used on Footplate Experience duties, as well as appearing at galas on the SVR and elsewhere. However, her own 1450 did haul a service train so in 2014, double heading with [[4566]] to provide the required power, due to a number of ongoing locomotive repairs leaving the SVR unexpectedly short on engines. No announcement has yet been made The locomotive is regularly used on when 1450 will leaveFootplate Experience duties, as well as appearing on charters and at galas on the SVR and it has been reported that Mike Little elsewhere. She is happy often paired with the owner's autocoaches [[GWR 178 Autotrailer Third | 178]] and [[GWR 238 Autotrailer Third | 238]] which are also resident on the SVR.  Whilst 1450 was winterised at [[Bridgnorth MPD]] over 2017-18 she returned to GWR livery, at the owner's request, for the remainder of its current arrangements boiler ticket.<ref>[https://twitter.com/svrofficialsite/status/947815226602348545 SVR Twitter 1 January 2018]</ref>  During 2019 the locomotive visited the Didcot Railway Centre from the end of April until early September.<ref>[https://www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk Didcot Railway Centre website]</ref> [[GWR Large Prairie 4144]] was on loan to the SVR from Didcot for summer 2019, an arrangement which suited both parties. ===1450 on the main line===In 1988 she ran three days of 'The Dawlish Donkey' mainline trips, from Exeter to Newton Abbot and return.<ref>[http://www.uksteam.info/tours/trs98.htm uksteam website] (NovRetrieved 11 July 2019)</ref>. 2015)In subsequent years the operation was expanded, with larger locomotives hauling longer trains over longer routes.

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