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|lot = 2208
|wagtype = Bogie Bolster
|capacity = 40 tons
|telcode = GANE A
|topscode = YLO<ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref>
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}}'''BR DB996730''' is a '''60ft Bogie Bolster / Rail Carrier DB 996730 ''' and is one of 95 built for BR by Cravens of Sheffield in 1950 to the former GWR 40 ton ‘Gane A’ GANE A design, of which the SVR’s . The SVR's [[GWR 60841 Bogie Bolster | 60841]] is an exampleof the original GANE A first built in 1935 to Diagram J26. 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. It 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>.
==Preservation==
996730 arrived on the SVR on 7 November 1990 from WillsdenWillesden. It was one of a number of wagons that were originally intended for the Southall Steam Centre but which came to the SVR instead during that year, owned by J.J. Smith.<ref name=SB9/> It was immediately put to use by the PW department for carrying rails and sleepers.<ref>SVR News 98</ref> The photograph shows the wagon carring carrying rails in a engineering train at [[Bewdley ]] in 2015.
==See also==
==Links==
*[http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=7496 996730 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]<br>
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