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[[File: SR_56291_20150402{{Infobox wagon|image = SR 56291 Bogie Brake Van.jpg |caption = SR Brake Van 56291 (Jan 2016)|construc = SR Lancing/Ashford|status = Unrestored|wagno = 56291|othernos = KDS 56291|thumbdesigned = |300pxdiagram = 1550|rightlot = 867| SR wagtype = Brake Van 56291]]|telcode = ‘Queen Mary’|brakes = Vacuum braked|built = 1936|years1 = 1975|events1 = Entered preservation|years2 = 1985|events2 = Appeared on the main line|years3 = |events3 = |years4 = |events4 = |years5 = |events5 = |years6 = |events6 = }}[[File:SR 56291 Bogie Brake VanSR_56291_20150402.jpg|thumb|300px|right| SR Brake Van 56291(Apr 2015)]]The majority of goods brake vans were of the 20 ton type. However 56291 is an example of a Southern Region 25 ton brake van, equipped with vacuum brakes and fitted with redundant carriage bogies to allow running at up to 75 mph on fast mail and parcel trains. These type of brake vans were often used on boat trains from Southampton, earning them the nickname “Queen Mary”.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>

==Service and Preservation==56291 was built by the SR at Lancing/Ashford in 1936to Diagram 1550, Lot 867.<ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref> Post-nationalisation it was used in BR’s Southern and Western regions, ending service in BR’s S&T Department works trains, for which it was renumbered KDS 56291. It <ref name=SB9/> 56291 arrived on the SVR in 1996 on 27 November 1993 from London’s Old Oak Common, privately owned by J.J. Smith. No restoration had been carried out by 1999.<ref name=SB9/> {{As of|2016}} it was stored at the [[Stourport Triangle]].

Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey<br>Severn Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition<brreferences />