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[[File: BR_993898_20150426{{Infobox wagon|image = BR 993898 20170317.jpg |thumb|200px|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 in preservation==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 was used on engineers' P-Way trains until replaced by [[BR 993876 'Shark' Ballast Plough Brake | air braked Shark 993876]] in 2017. The Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey states that this wagon left the SVR for the Gwili Railway in 2013, however 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. =Sources=See also==*[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]] *[[Rolling stock currently under restoration‎]]Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey<br>Severn Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition==References==<brreferences />

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

==See also==[[Category:Rolling stock owned by The SVR Charitable Trust]][[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagonsCategory:Brake vans]]