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}}[[File: BR_901010_20150307.jpg |thumb|300px|right| BR Weltrol MV Well Trolley 901010 at Bridgnorth in 2015]]This BR Well Trolley (‘Weltrol MV’) was built by Head, Wrightson in 1952 to Diagram 2/731, Lot 2360.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Rowland (1996)]] App. 4.</ref> It was based on an LMS design and has a 40 ton capacity but a short 26ft wheelbase giving only a 15ft length for the load which is carried on a steel floor.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>
Much of its working life was spent carrying a caterpillar tracked earthmover at Nechells Power Station, Washwood Heath. After being condemned it was transferred to Willsden, from where it was acquired by Mr. J.J. Smith in 1990, arriving 6 November of that year.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref> On arrival on the SVR it was placed into immediate use with the P. Way Department. It subsequently received a repaint with the intention of being used in the 1992 Freight Weekend, but unfortunately failed a pads exam at 9 pm on the eve of the event, resulting in a 2 hour shunt to remove it from the formation.<ref>SVR News 107</ref> It has subsequently served mainly as a boiler carrier at Bridgnorth, in which role it was photographed in 2015 and 2016.
The Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey suggests that 901010 is the only survivor of the 9 Weltrol MVs built to Diagram 731 and therefore unique in preservation,<ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref> the other MVs being to a later diagram.