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[[File: BR_993898_20150426.jpg |thumb|300px|right| BR Ballast Plough Brake 993898]]
This Ballast Plough Brake, of type ‘Shark’, was built by BRCW at Smethwick in 1957to Diagram 1/597, Lot 3040. <ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref> 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.<ref>Severn Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>
==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. It is now used on engineers' P-Way trains, 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 June 2016.<br>
The plough can be seen in use in this video taken at Trimpley in February 2017. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHxD4f3_THE Link to YouTube]
==See also==
*[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]]
==References==
==Links==
*[http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrust.org/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=9639 993898 on vintagecarriagestrust.org]<br>
[[Category:Rolling stock owned by The SVR Charitable Trust]]
[[Category:Brake vans]]
