BR 997623 'Prawn' Bogie Bolster
From SVR Wiki
DB 997623 is the SVRSevern Valley Railway’s only example of a “Prawn” bogie bolster. The type was based on the GWRGreat Western Railway “MacawGWR telegraphic code signifying a timber truck” bogie bolster, and was used by BRBritish Rail or British Railways’s Signal and Telegraph Department for the carrying of telegraph poles and signal posts.
DB 997623 was built circa 1951[1]-1952[2] at Swindon. It arrived on the SVRSevern Valley Railway in December 1990 from Southall, then owned by Mr J J Smith.
It was photographed at Bewdley in August 2015.
Sources
Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey
SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition
Links
BR DB 997623 on vintagecarriagestrust.org
