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[[File: GWR_42343_20150307.jpg |thumb|300px|right| GWR Machinery Flat 42343, March 2015]][[File: GWR 43243_2047_20180714.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Carrying the saddle tank, smokebox and boiler from [[2047]], July 2018]]
This machinery flat, or ‘well wagon’ was built at Swindon in 1944 and is of type Loriot N, having a 20 ton capacity.
It was acquired by [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC | SVR(H)]]<ref>SVR Stock Book 9th Edition</ref> from Round Oak Steelworks in March 1971 and initially restored the following year. For some years it was the regular transporter for the P.W bulldozer. When photographed in March 2015 it was sited at Bridgnorth, carrying the saddle tanks of [[2047 Warwickshire]] and [[GWR 813 Saddle Tank | GWR 813]]. On 14 July 2018 the original boiler, smokebox and saddle tank of [[2047|Manning Wardle 2047 'Warwickshire']] were lifted onto 42343 by the [[Cowans Sheldon 30-ton steam crane RS 1087|30-to steam crane]] in preparation for a planned move of the locomotive chassis and other components to Bewdley later in 2018.
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