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This wagon was built by Metro Cammell at Saltley in 1959 to BR Diagram 1/575, Lot number 3170 (the first Lot under the later Diagram which included vacuum brakes and self-contained or hydraulic buffers).<ref name=Larkin>[[Bibliography#Other References|Larkin Vol 1 (2011), p.42.]]</ref>. It was vacuum brake fitted and was numbered DB989098, the prefix indicating a wagon built by BR for Departmental use.
'Mermaid' 989098 and [[BR 'Dogfish' Ballast Hopper Wagons | 'Dogfish' 983115]] were acquired from Burton Wagon Shops in late 1996 by John Briscoe, a member of the then Bridgnorth-based C&W group.<ref> SVR News 122</ref> The two wagons arrived on the SVR on consecutive days in early , 989098 on 3 December 1996. Both are regularly used on P. Way trains.
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