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By December 2008 24617 had completed an unbroken record of 40 seasons in service. It returned to Kidderminster paint shop as part of a refresh of the LMS set which had been in progress for several years, interrupted by the [[2007 Storm Damage]]. The windows received new skates and springs throughout, while a new gangway canvas was fitted at the third class end. The vestibule floor at the same end had become rotten and was renewed. The entire interior was rubbed down and re-varnished, after which all the ceilings were cleaned and repainted. Externally the paintwork was refreshed although without a full repaint on this occasion. The seats were also re-covered with fabric paid for by the Rolling Stock Trust.<ref>SVR News 164, 167</ref>
During work in 2022 repairers found pencilled scribblings on the exposed walls from those who built the coach. Some form of spelling test was in one compartment, piecework rates were calculated elsewhere, and a roll call of the assembly team appears on another wall. The team documented all the original graffiti in the coach which remains untouched hidden behind veneer panels, added to with a 2022 team roll call of volunteers and paid staff.<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/bldec22 Branch Lines, December 2022]</ref>
{{As of|2021}} 24617 has run in SVR service every season since 1968, one of only two vehicles to have done so.<ref name=SVRCT/> It forms part of [[Carriages#Set_L|the LMS Maroon set (Set L)]], notwithstanding that it was not built until after nationalisation.
