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[[File: {{Infobox wagon|image = BR_996730_20150426.jpg |thumbcaption = BR Rail Carrier 996730|200pxconstruc = Cravens of Sheffield|rightstatus = In service| BR Rail Carrier wagno = DB 996730]]|othernos = |designed = |diagram = 1/641|lot = 2208|wagtype = Bogie Bolster|capacity = 40 tons|telcode = GANE A|topscode = YLO<ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref>|brakes = |built = 1950|years1 = 1990|events1 = Entered preservation on SVR|years2 = |events2 = |years3 = |events3 = |years4 = |events4 = |years5 = |events5 = |years6 = |events6 = }}Bogie Bolster / Rail Carrier DB 996730 is one of 95 built for BR by Cravens of Sheffield in 1950 to the former GWR ‘Gane A’ 40 ton 'GANE A' design(Diagram J29), of which the SVR’s [[GWR 60841 Bogie Bolster | 60841]] is an example. The 60ft length allowed standard length rails to be carried. It was never vacuum-fitted, which led to an early retirement.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref><ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref> During the BR era, the Western Region commonly continued to use GWR-era Telegraph codes for Civil Engineers wagons rather than adopting the 'fish' codes used elsewhere<ref name=Larkin>[[Bibliography#Other References|Larkin Vol 1 (2011), p.54.]]</ref>.

It ==Preservation==996730 arrived on the SVR in on 7 November 1990from Willsden. It was one of a number of wagons that were originally intended for the Southall Steam Centre but which came to the SVR instead during that year, and is used owned by J.J. Smith.<ref name=SB9/> It was immediately put to use by the PW department for carrying rails and sleepers.<ref>SVR News 98</ref> The photograph shows the wagon carring rails in a engineering train at Bewdley in 2015.

==SourcesSee also==Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey<br>[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]] ==References==Severn Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition<brreferences />

*[http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=7496 996730 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]<br> 

==See also==[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagonsCategory:Featured articles]]