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[[File:Parr_Wagons_20180602.jpg|tuumb|300px|right|Parr wagons DC967577 (nearer) and DC967526 at Bewdley, June 2018.]]These vehicles are YQA 'Parr' Bogie Rail Wagons (Borail). As the name suggests, these were designed to carry rail with the load secured using lashing rings mounted on brackets on the solebars.
BR built rail carriers and 135 wagons were constructed to diagram 1/483. Under TOPS the Borail wagons were coded as BRV, the vacuum-braked variant. This was selected for upgrade work and in 1981 lot number 4012 was issued for conversions at Shildon works. Besides the modifications to the brakes and the fitting of new Y25C bogies, the body was altered to have 8in tall sides and ends, each side having 6 cutouts for strap tensioners. The lashing rings were removed but the brackets were left in situ, and six new bolsters were fitted. The rebuilt wagons were given new numbers 967500 to 967649, TOPS code BRA and design code BR006A. The BRAs had perhaps the shortest life in original use of any wagon type. The last were completed in January 1982 but, by early 1983, the whole fleet was transferred to departmental use and recoded YLA (YLA-B) to design code YL003A, and gained DC prefixes. To avoid confusion with the YMA Salmon fleet, the TOPS code for the Parr wagons was changed to YQA in 1990.
