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==Preservation==
25190 was acquired from the then British Waterways Board's Sharpness Docks by the [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]] in 1986. Although in relatively poor structural condition, it was considered worthy of preservation as one of only a handful of vehicles still in existence with the original pattern of GWR "Dean-Churchward" ratchet brake.<ref name=SVR84>SVR News 84</ref> It arrived on the SVR on 16 December 1986,<ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref> accompanied by another similar wagon number [[Wagons formerly resident on the SVR|13260]]. The latter was accepted on the understanding that it was unsuitable for restoration and would be dismantled to provide spare parts.<ref name=SVR84/>
13260 was quickly dismantled, although it did not provide a spring eye bolt (two of which connect each carrying spring to the underframes). Two recent failures on other wagons through a combination of overloading and old age had exhausted the remaining stock of these, requiring new bolts to be manufactured.<ref name=SVR84/>
