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[[File:{{Infobox carriage|image = GWR_98_DavidRouse.jpg |thumb|200px|right| caption = GWR Full Brake 98 (Photo by David Rouse)]]|construc = GWR Gangwayed Full Brake (BG) No Swindon|status = Static use|carno = 98 was built to Diagram |othernos = W98, W98W|designed = Collett / Hawksworth|diagram = K42, Lot |lot = 1665 at Swindon in |cartype = [[:Category:Carriage Type BG|BG]]|length = 57ft 0in|weight = 28t 5cwt|seats = None|built = 1945, during Frederick Hawksworth’s tenure as Chief Mechanical Engineer. |years1 = 1978|events1 = Entered preservation|years2 = |events2 = |years3 = |events3 = |years4 = |events4 = |years5 = |events5 = |years6 = |events6 = }}As with the earlier ‘Snake C’‘[[GWR 1145 Toplight 'Snake C' Passenger Brake|Snake C]]’, this full brake the GWR Gangwayed Full Brake (BG) has no passenger seating but features a central Guard’s compartment with luggage compartments at each end, while a side corridor allows passengers to pass through the carriage.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>

==Service==No 98 finished its GWR service being used for parcels trafficwas built at Swindon to Diagram K42, and was purchased from Manchester Red Bank Sidings in 1978 a late Collett design of which the first examples date to 1937, although by the GWR 813 Preservation Fund. It time No 98 was used on SVR trains completed in 1978/791945 as part of Lot 1665, and later used Frederick Hawksworth had succeeded Collett as a workshop at KidderminsterChief Mechanical Engineer.<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Harris (1966)]] p. It is now kept at Bewdley yard as store and workshop154.</ref>

==Sources==Railway Heritage Register Carriage SurveyAt Nationalisation in 1947, BR added a W prefix to the carriage number to denote its GWR origin. Following the introduction of BR Mk 1 carriages in 1951 the W prefix was used to show the allocation to the BR Western Region, with a W suffix denoting its GWR origin.<brref>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition[[Bibliography#Other References|Longworth (2018)]] p.8.<br/ref>GWR 813 Fund web site

After use on passenger services this class of carriage usually ended service life either gutted for Departmental use transferring components between works or, as in the case of No 98, being used for parcels traffic.<ref name=SB9/> <br clear="all"/>=Links=Preservation==[http[File://wwwGWR_98_20150411.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=35 jpg|thumb|right|300px|GWR 98 in Bewdley Down Yard, April 2015]]No 98 was purchased from Manchester Red Bank Sidings by [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]], arriving on vintagecarriagestrust1 June 1978 still painted in BR blue livery.org]<brref>[http:SVR Stock Book Seventh Edition</ref> It was used on SVR trains in 1978/www79, as [[Santa's Grotto]] in the early 1980s and subsequently as a workshop at [[Kidderminster]].gwr813.org<ref>SVR News 66</ref><ref name=SB9/>  No 98is now kept under tarpaulins in [[Bewdley Down Yard]] where it is used as store and workshop.htm 98 on GWR 813 web site]

 ==References==<references /> ==Links==*[http: [[Barry //www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=35 98 on Railway Carriage 163 | Next Heritage Register On-Line]*[http://www.gwr813.org/pagew1.html 98 on GWR 813 web site] {{CarriageNavbox}}