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{{Infobox wagon
|image = GWR_17410_20150320GWR 17410b 20180626.jpg
|caption = GWR Toad Brake Van 17410
|construc = GWR Swindon
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}}[[File:GWR 17410a 20180626.jpg|thumb|300px|right|17410, June 2018]]20 ton 'Toad' Brake Van 17410 was built at Swindon in 1940, one of a batch of 100 financed by the War Department but taken straight into GWR stock. The diagram number was AA.21, lot number 1370. It was vacuum fitted with screw couplings. An original stencil on an internal wall suggests that its first allocation was to Cardiff, but when last in SVR service it was lettered in late GWR style grey livery and allocated to "Bristol RU".
Early in its life the sanding gear was removed, and its place was taken by additional ballast. It is believed that the additional adhesion weight would have been of more use to a fitted brake van. Many other preserved vac. fitted Toads have undergone the same modification.
==17140 17410 in preservation==It arrived on the SVR in on 24 November 1970, purchased by a group of working members known as the 17410 Fund, and was restored the following year, after which it saw regular use by the PW Department. Following withdrawal as surplus to PW requirements and in very poor condition it languished in Bewdley yard. The van is known to many on the SVR as "Don Wilcox's toad".
===2015 restoration===
==Gallery==
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GWR_17410_20150320.jpg|Before restoration, March 2015
Underfloor_bin_1.JPG |Ballast bin
17410_CARDIFF.JPG |17410 CARDIFF on internal wall
