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{{Infobox wagon
|image = GWR_17410_20150320GWR 17410b 20180626.jpg
|caption = GWR Toad Brake Van 17410
|construc = GWR Swindon
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}}[[File:GWR 17410a 20180626.jpg|thumb|300px|right|17410, June 2018]]20 ton 'Toad' Brake Van 17410 was built at Swindon in 1940, one of a batch of 100 financed by the War Department but taken straight into GWR stock. The diagram number was AA.21, lot number 1370. It was vacuum fitted with screw couplings. An original stencil on an internal wall suggests that its first allocation was to Cardiff, but when last in SVR service it was lettered in late GWR style grey livery and allocated to "Bristol RU".
Early in its life the sanding gear was removed, and its place was taken by additional ballast. It is believed that the additional adhesion weight would have been of more use to a fitted brake van. Many other preserved vac. fitted Toads have undergone the same modification.
==Gallery==
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GWR_17410_20150320.jpg|Before restoration, March 2015
Underfloor_bin_1.JPG |Ballast bin
17410_CARDIFF.JPG |17410 CARDIFF on internal wall
