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[[File: BR_993898_20150426{{Infobox wagon|image = BR 993898 20170317.jpg |thumb|300px|right| caption = BR Ballast Plough Brake DB 993898|construc = BRCW Smethwick|status = In service|wagno = DB 993898]]|othernos = |designed = |diagram = 1/597|lot = 3040|wagtype = Ballast plough brake|capacity = 20 tons|telcode = Shark|topscode = ZUV|brakes = Vacuum braked|built = 1957|years1 = 1990|events1 = Entered preservation on SVR|years2 = |events2 = |years3 = |events3 = |years4 = |events4 = |years5 = |events5 = |years6 = |events6 = }}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 arrived on the SVR from Tinsley in on 19 November 1990, and was later fitted with ploughs acquired from Duddeston Wagon Shops in Birmingham. It is now was used on engineers' P-Way trains, so may be seen at various locations along the line as use requiresuntil replaced by [[BR 993876 'Shark' Ballast Plough Brake | air braked Shark 993876]] in 2017. The photograph below shows it in a ballast train at [[Bewdley]] in April 2015. It was in the siding at [[Eardington]] on 1 June 2016.<gallery>BR_993898_20150426.jpg|DB993898, Bewdley 2015</gallery>

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] 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. {{As of|2020|1}} it is being restored by the Carriage and Wagon team in the cattle dock at Bridgnorth.

*[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]] *[[Rolling stock currently under restoration‎]]

Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey<br>Severn Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition<brreferences />

*[http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=9639 993898 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]<br>