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This Ballast Plough Brake, of type ‘Shark’, was built by BRCW at Smethwick in 1957. The type was based on an LMS design, and had large metal ingots installed below the Guard’s floor to add extra weight. Fitted with a handbrake and stove, they were used in ballast train working; the ploughs being used to spread newly-dropped stone ballast.
==993898 in preservation==993898 arrived on the SVR from Tinsley in 1990, and was later fitted with ploughs acquired from Duddeston Wagon Shops in Birmingham. The Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey states that this wagon left the SVR for the Gwili Railway in 2013It is now used on engineers' P-Way trains, however so may be seen at various locations along the line as use requires. The photograph shows it in a ballast train at [[Bewdley ]] in April 2015. It was in the siding at [[Eardington ]] on 1/6/June 2016.
In 2016 the then owners took the decision to donate 993898 to the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd | SVR Charitable Trust]], thus ensuring its long term place as part of the SVR's wagon fleet
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