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|caption = GWR 41277 4 plank Open Goods Wagon
|construc = GWR Swindon
|status = In serviceAwaiting restoration
|wagno = 41277
|othernos =
|years1 = 1986
|events1 = Arrived on SVR
|years2 = 1987|events2 = Restored
|years3 =
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|years6 =
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}}[[File:GWR_41277_20160319.jpg|thumb|300px|right|41277 at [[Bewdley Down Yard]] in March 2016]]41277 is the oldest wagon on the SVR. It is also the oldest known surviving and only complete example of over 18,000 four plank open wagons built by the GWR between 1886 and 1902.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>
==41277 in service==
==41277 in preservation==
41277 was bought by [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]] in 1984 at Sharpness Docks,<ref>GWR813.org</ref> where it is believed it had been since being condemned by the GWR in 1935.<ref name=SB9/> It was stripped down, shotblasted and primed there before being transported to [[Kidderminster ]] by road, arriving on 18 September 1986. From there it was moved to [[Bewdley Down Yard]] on [[GWR 42138 'Loriot D' Machinery Truck|Loriot D 42138]].<ref>SVR News 82</ref> Restoration was completed over the following winter, including replacing the curb rails, and rebuilding of the timber bodywork. The running gear received new bearings while the journals were also overhauled. Finally the wagon was repainted and lettered in original 1890s style.<ref>SVR News 84</ref>.
41277 is operational and is normally based awaiting overhaul at Bewdley. In 2022 Rapido Trains announced a commercial OO gauge model<ref>[https://www.hattons.co.uk/862639/rapido_trains_uk_925002_gwr_dia_o21_open_wagon_41277_in_gwr_grey_pre_1904_condition_as_preserved/stockdetail Hattons.co.uk] (Retrieved 25 March 2022)</ref>.
==See also==
*[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]]
*[[Models of the Severn Valley Railway]]
==References==