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[[File: {{Infobox wagon|image = BR_906811_20150322.jpg |thumbcaption = BR Flat ED 904811|200pxconstruc = BR Shildon|rightstatus = In service| wagno = BR Flat 906811|othernos = |designed = |diagram = 2/072|lot = 3004|wagtype = 4 wheel flat wagon|telcode = FLAT ED 904811]]|brakes = |built = 1957|years1 = 1975|events1 = Arrived on SVR|years2 = |events2 = |years3 = |events3 = |years4 = |events4 = |years5 = |events5 = |years6 = |events6 = }}Special Flat Wagon 906811 (telegraph type Flat ED) was built by BR at Shildon in 1957. <ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref> These wagons were intended to transport large bulky loads, and were equipped with a flat timber floor and chaining down rings.<ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>

==Preservation==The SVR’s 3 Flat ED wagons, 906811, 906825 and 906930, were bought from BR by Universal Pictures and arrived on for use in the SVR in July 1975, being used as mock carriages in making of the film [[The Seven-Per-Cent Solution]]. 906811 is photographed at Bridgnorth , and arrived on the SVR from Kettering in March 2015July 1975. The Flat ED Two of the wagons are owned were fitted with temporary wooden bodies to serve as mock carriages, while the third was used for film camera work. On completion of filming they became surplus to requirements and were acquired by [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC | SVR(H)]].<ref name=SB7>SVR Stock Book Seventh Edition.</ref>

<gallery>S6922_Film_Set_Stock_D_Cooke.jpg||Mock carriage on a Flat ED underframe (D Cooke)</gallery> The wagon’s original identities were unknown at the time of arrival and they were allocated the temporary SVR numbers 14191/2/3. They were also originally thought to be 'horse box underframes'.<ref name==Sources==SB7/> Subsequent research revealed their true purpose and confirmed their identities as 906811, [[BR 906825 Flat ED|906825]] and [[BR 906830 Flat ED|906830]], although the most recent edition of the SVR Stock Book (June 1998) listed the third as 906930. Railway Heritage Register Wagon SurveyBeing vacuum fitted, they proved useful in service on engineering trains. All three were re-decked and repainted shortly before 1990.<brref>Severn Valley Railway SVR Stock Book Ninth Eight Edition<br/ref> 906811 is pictured at Bridgnorth in March 2015. ==See also==[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]] ==References==

[http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrust.org/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=7454 906811 on vintagecarriagestrust.org]<br>