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}}94059 is one of 500 built at Swindon in 1914 to Diagram O13, Lot 777. It is a 4-wheeled 5-plank open tippler wagon with a capacity of 12 tons. The wagons were used until the 1950s to haul china clay from Cornwall to the Staffordshire potteries, and accordingly were latterly given the telegraphic code 'CLAY'. In service they were fitted with zinc-lined floors, as the normal wooden floor of a wagon could stain the clay. An end door allowed the clay to be tipped, but side doors were also fitted to allow barrels of clay to be loaded if required. They were originally fitted with DCII brakes, later converted to a GWR Morton-type ‘lever each side’ pin-down arrangement to comply with the 1939 MOT BoT right hand brake lever ruling.<ref >[[Bibliography#Other References|Atkins, Beard & Tourret (2013)]] pp. 10, 28, 304.</ref><ref>[http://www.gwr.org.uk/nowagonbrakes.html Wagon brakes on www.gwr.org.uk]</ref>
94059 was sold to the Port of Bristol Authority in 1958 for use on the Avonmouth Docks internal system, where it was numbered PBA 58028. It was acquired from there, arriving on the SVR on 8 September 1975.<ref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref> Some body repairs were carried out shortly after arrival.<ref>SVR News 39</ref> It ran for some time under the false number 97393 but was repainted with the correct number in 1982.<ref>SVR News 66</ref>
