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During the 2022 [[Spring Steam Gala]] 813 suffered a failure of the grey iron casting that forms part of the rear spring housing under the coal bunker. It was [[SVR-based locomotives visiting other events#Cancelled_appearances|unable to attend]] as planned the South Devon Railway 150 celebration, and a hire period at The Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway. The failure required the casting to be removed at Bridgnorth and a local foundry The Boro' Foundry at Lye, Stourbridge engaged to assist in producing a new pattern, make a new casting made in spheroidal graphite iron , and machine it before it is refitted.<ref>SVR News 220</ref>. {{As of |2023|0507}} the new machined drag box has been cast and is at Bridgnorth, awaiting machiningfitting. The GWR 813 Fund Trustees have launched a [https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/gwr-813s-drag-box-casting-1 Crowdfunder appeal] to help to cover the cost which raised around £2,000 of the project which is estimated at £15,000cost<ref>[https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/gwr-813-failure.1420980/page-3#post-2816098 National Preservation Forum] (retrieved 1 June 2023)</ref>.

Around 2000 the locom0tive locomotive carried wooden 'Taffy' nameplates<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213475830728481&set=gm.10157260045426989&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Dave Hill photograph of 813 at Highley on 2 September 2000 posted on Facebook, 4 May 2020] (Retrieved 4 May 2020)</ref>.