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}}'''BR DB996730''' is a '''60ft Bogie Bolster / Rail Carrier''' and is one of 95 built for BR by Cravens of Sheffield in 1950 to the former GWR GANE A design. The SVR's [[GWR 60841 Bogie Bolster | 60841]] is an example of the original GANE A first built in 1935 to Diagram 36J26. The 60ft length allowed standard length rails to be carried, with the wagon having a 40-ton capacity.
996730 was built to a modified GANE A design (Diagram J29) which was introduced in 1940 and incorporated two independent long lever brakes instead of the GWR's pre-War DC brakes. However it was never vacuum-fitted, which led to an early retirement.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref><ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref> During the BR era, the Western Region commonly continued to use GWR-era Telegraph codes for Civil Engineers wagons rather than adopting the 'fish' codes used elsewhere<ref name=Larkin>[[Bibliography#Other References|Larkin Vol 1 (2011), p.54.]]</ref>.
