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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 = }}'''BR DB996730''' is a '''60ft Bogie Bolster / Rail Carrier DB 996730 ''' and is one of 95 built for BR by Cravens of Sheffield in 1950 to the former GWR ‘Gane A’ GANE A design, of which the SVR’s . The SVR's [[GWR 60841 Bogie Bolster | 60841]] is an exampleof the original GANE A first built in 1935 to Diagram J26. The 60ft length allowed standard length rails to be carried. It was never vacuum, with the wagon having a 40-fitted, which led to an early retirementton capacity.

It arrived on 996730 was built to a modified GANE A design (Diagram J29) which was introduced in 1940 and incorporated two independent long lever brakes instead of the GWR's pre-War DC brakes. However it was never vacuum-fitted, which led to an early retirement.<ref name=SB9>SVR in 1990Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref><ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref> During the BR era, and is used by the PW department Western Region commonly continued to use GWR-era Telegraph codes for carrying rails and sleepersCivil Engineers wagons rather than adopting the 'fish' codes used elsewhere<ref name=Larkin>[[Bibliography#Other References|Larkin Vol 1 (2011), p.54.]]</ref>.

==SourcesPreservation==Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey996730 arrived on the SVR on 7 November 1990 from 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, owned by J.J. Smith.<brref 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. ==See also==[[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]]