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BR 989098 'Mermaid' Ballast Wagon
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BR ‘Mermaid’ Ballast Wagon DB 989098
Built By Metro Cammell
Status Operational
Number DB 989098
History
Built 1959
Diagram 1/575
Lot 3170
Type 4-w steel side-tipper ballast hopper
Capacity 14 tons
Telegraphic code MERMAID
TOPS code ZJV
Brakes Vacuum fitted
1996 Arrived on SVR

Goods Wagons

The BR 'Mermaid' 14 ton side-tipping ballast wagon is very similar to the design first produced by Metropolitan Cammell for the GWR as early as the 19th century.[1] This type of wagon was used to form a new track bed by tipping ballast from an adjacent line. The side of the wagon opposite the tipping direction would be clipped to the rail, and the body moved sideways on rollers by winding a handle. Tipping too many wagons at once could result in damage to the track![2]

Contents

Service and preservation

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).[3]. It was vacuum brake fitted and was numbered DB989098, the prefix indicating a wagon built by BR for Departmental use.

'Mermaid' 989098 and 'Dogfish' 983115 were acquired from Burton Wagon Shops in late 1996 by John Briscoe, a member of the then Bridgnorth-based C&W group.[4] The two wagons arrived on the SVR on consecutive days, 989098 on 3 December 1996. Both are regularly used on P. Way trains.

Gallery

  • Tipping instructions

  • Tipping mechanism

  • Tipping mechanism

  • Door operating levers

  • Tipping mechanism

  • Rail clamp

  • Door operating levers

See also

References

  1. ↑ SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition
  2. ↑ cambrianmodels.co.uk
  3. ↑ Larkin Vol 1 (2011), p.42.
  4. ↑ SVR News 122

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