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It arrived on the SVR on 6 January 1973 by rail from Bristol, having been bought the previous year by Robert Smallman for £200, plus £24 transport.<ref name=bloct21/><ref name="SVRNews216"/> The missing third class compartment structure came from [[Carriages formerly resident on the SVR|GWR Collett bow-ended Corridor Third 4886]].<ref name="SVRNews216"/> Since then it had been stored in various locations on the SVR, but moved to [[Bewdley Down Yard]] in 2014 for restoration to begin. Work began in earnest in 2015; progress on the restoration was shown on the Great Western (SVR) Association website. In October 2018 the coach moved to [[Carriage Repair Works|Carriage Repair Works at Kidderminster]] and was completed in April 2020, the restoration costing around £150,000.<ref name=bloct21/> It is turned out in the livery it carried in 1930.<ref name=bloct21/>

On 17 October 2021 a special train ran with [[1501]] and [[Carriages|the Great Western set]] to officially launch 6045, with special guest passengers involved in its return to traffic.<ref name=bloct21/> Originally planned for May 2020, it was delayed by the [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic]]<ref>GW(SVR)A Newsletter, Winter 2020 edition</ref><ref>[http://www.gw-svr-a.org.uk/news.html GW(SVR)A News page, April 2020]</ref>.