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|status = Operational
|wagno = 41736
|othernos = DW41736
|designed =
|diagram = M3
|lot = 747
|wagtype = 4-wheel Shunters Truck
|telcode = n/a
|topscode =
Shunter’s Trucks or ‘Chariots’ were a common sight in goods yards around the GWR system. The locker on top of the platform was used by the shunting staff to store shunting poles, chocks and even re-railing equipment.
==Service==
41736 was built at Swindon in 1913 to Diagram M3 Lot 747, the Lot consisting of this single wagon.<ref name=Atkins>[[Bibliography#Other References|Atkins, Beard & Tourret (2013)]] pp. 23, 229.</ref> This particular example worked in Canons Marsh Goods Depot in Bristol, from where it arrived on the SVR in January 1974.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>
==Preservation==
In 1982-83 it underwent a major overhaul involving repairs to the chassis and replacement of all the woodwork.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref> A planned move to Swindon by rail to appear at the GWR 150 Exhibition resulted in a further repaint and re-profiling of the tyres in 1985, but in the event the Exhibition was cancelled and the move did not take place. Another overhaul was carried out in 1997.<ref>SVR News 76, 123</ref>
41736 is based at Kidderminster, and is owned by [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]].
==Model==Bachmann produced an OO gauge model (model ref. 38-675) of 41736 ==See Alsoalso==[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]]<br>[[Models of the Severn Valley Railway]]
==References==
