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50044 was operational until the end of 1999 both on the SVR and the main line. In early 2000 50044 returned to Brush Engineering under warranty to check out what was thought to be a small earth fault on the recently repaired generator. 50044 returned to the SVR where other overhaul work was undertaken, while the generator underwent a lengthy repair carried out by Dowding and Mills. The locomotive eventually returned to service in May 2004 having also been fitted with TWPS which had become a requirement for main line working by that time. It had been repainted as D444 (nameless) in an early BR two tone green livery (non-authentic, but representing how the class would have appeared if BR had not turned to blue livery at that time.<ref>SVR News 142, 146, 148</ref>
On Saturday 14 October 2006, D444 was rededicated to HMS Exeter by Lieutenant Commander Scott Sellars, Logistics Officer of the later HMS Exeter,<ref group="note">A type 42 Destroyer launched in 1978; as of 2006 the only surviving veteran of the 1982 Falklands War.</ref> as part of the Kidderminster Station Festival.<ref name=SVR156>SVR News 156</ref> In early 2011 50044 was repainted by Pullman Rail at Cardiff Canton into an authentic BR blue livery, returning to main line use in the late summer of that year.<ref>SVR News 178</ref>
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