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}}13154 was built at Swindon in 1912<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book 9th Edition</ref> or 1913<ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref>. It is of type OPEN A, signifying that it was fitted with a sheet support but did not have vacuum brakes. It saw service with the GWR, BR(W) and latterly with the Port of Bristol Authority as number PBA 58206.
13154 was preserved in 1975, initially at the West Somerset Railway and then Bristol Industrial Museum,<ref>GWR813.org</ref> from where it arrived on the SVR in 28 on March 1985.<ref name=SB9/> It was restored in 1986, which required complete timber and curb rail replacement, welding repairs to cracks in both headstocks and the replacement of four carrying springs, one bearing, two buffer springs and one cracked buffer head.<ref>SVR News 82</ref> It received a further overhaul between 2008 and 2011<ref>SVR News 175</ref> and was moved into Bewdley Yard in April 2016 for further attention including renewal / refurbishment of the braking equipment.
It is normally in service as part of the [[Demonstration Goods Train]] and is owned by [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]].
==See Alsoalso==
[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]]
