[[File: {{Infobox wagon|image = BR_983115_20180603.jpg|thumb|300px|right|caption = BR Dogfish DB983115 at Eardington, June 2018]]|construc = Chas Roberts (Wakefield)|status = Operational|wagno = DB983115|othernos = |designed = |diagram = 1/587|lot = 2939|wagtype = 4-wheel ballast hopper|capacity = 24 tons|telcode = DOGFISH|topscode = ZFV|brakes = Vacuum fitted, air through pipe (2022)|built = 1957|years1 = 1996|events1 = Arrived on SVR|years2 = |events2 =|years3 = |events3 = |years4 = |events4 = |years5 = |events5 = |years6 = |events6 = }}From around 1955, BR adopted the 19 ton CATFISH and 24 ton DOGFISH as their standard vacuum-fitted small Steel Ballast Hopper wagons. The SVR has been home to three of the latter type. The DOGFISH was fitted with centre and side doors, allowing ballast to be dropped between the rails or to either side. A total of 1,249 of this type were built under Diagram 1/587, some by Metro-Cammell and others including the three SVR examples by Chas Roberts of Wakefield.<ref>LTSV Wagons</ref> BR Civil Engineers' wagons were commonly given ‘fish’ telegraph codes, with Dogfish being a general name describing various small sharks.<ref name=Larkin>[[Bibliography#Other References|Larkin Vol 1 (2011), p.36.]]</ref>.
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==Service and Preservation==
Details of the 3 Hopper Wagons are as follows:
!Number !! Built !! Built by!! Wagon Survey !! Notes
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| 983115 || 1957 || Chas Roberts || [http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=9636 Link] ||
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| 983194 || 1957 || Chas Roberts || [http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=9382 Link] || Left 2018
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| 993126 || 1956 || Chas Roberts || [http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=9383 Link] || Left 2018
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Since arrivalDB983115 was initially allocated to Llynclys Junction (Llandu Quarries).<ref name=Larkin/> Following the closure of the Burton Wagon Repair Department, DB 983115 arrived on the ballast wagons have SVR by road on 2 December 1996 having been used in purchased by Bridgnorth C&W member John Briscoe.<ref>SVR News 122</ref> It was immediately put into use on Engineers' P-Way trains. The <ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref> Two further DOGFISH were later acquired for the same purpose, and the first three photographs below show the all three wagons in a ballast train at Bewdley in April 2015.
In January 2018 it was reported that two of the three had been sold/transferred to the Swanage Railway. The remaining wagon, 983115, was photographed at Eardington in June 2018. In December 2022 it was fitted with a through pipe for air braking at [[Carriage Repair Works#Kidderminster_Carriage_Repair_Works|Kidderminster Carriage Repair Works]].
==Gallery==
==See also==
[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]] <br>[[Wagons formerly resident on the SVR]]
==References==
