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The SVR's wagons, which arrived on the SVR in July 1984, are were numbered as follows:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Number !! Built !! Built by!! Wagon Survey !! Notes
|-
| HW 410 || 1938 || GRCW || [http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=7469 Link] || Left in June 2021
|-
| HW 410 411 || 1938 || GRCW || [http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=7472 Link] || Left in August 2021
|-
| HW 436 || 1965 || BR Shildon || [http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=7468 Link] || Left in June 2021
|-
|}
The wagons left the SVR in June and August 2021.
==Service==
The two early examples were originally ordered by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1936 for use on planned extension works on London Underground such as the extension of the Northern Line to Potters Bar. These works were cancelled in 1938 due to the impending war. The third example was not built until the mid-1960s.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>
==Preservation==
The three ballast hoppers were acquired by [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC|SVR(H)]] in early 1984 and were initially intended for use in completing the [[The development of Kidderminster Town Station|extension to Kidderminster]]. Delays in receiving the LRO meant they were marooned in a goods yard at Shirebrook in Derbyshire, only arriving on the morning of 23 July 1984, the Monday of the final week before opening. They were immediately brought into use, greatly speeding up the final ballasting, lifting packing and slueing which was required at Kidderminster.<ref name=SB9/><ref>SVR News 73</ref>
In 1985, 410 and 436 appeared on the main line when they were used used in the [[The Severn Valley Railway on the main line#SVR Wagons used on the main line in preservation| GW 150 demonstration freight train]] which ran to Newport behind [[2857|GWR freight loco 2857]].<ref>SVR News 78</ref>
The wagons saw regular use on Permanent Way duties on the railway until superseded by other larger ballast hoppers, including a 24 ton [[BR 'Dogfish' Ballast Hopper Wagons|BR 'Dogfish' Ballast Hopper Wagon]] and six 40 ton [[BR 'Seacow' 40t Bogie Ballast Hoppers| BR 'Seacow' 40t Ballast Hoppers]]. On 8 May 2021 they were moved to the [[Stourport Triangle]]. Two of the wagons, HW 410 and HW 436 were relocated to the Mid Hants Railway in late June 2020<ref>[https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/rolling-stock-movements.7891/page-25#post-2673322 Mid Hants Instagram via National Preservation Forum] (Retrieved 30 June 2021)</ref>. [[Clayton Class 17 Bo-Bo D8568|D8568]] moved HW 411 to Kidderminster on 19 August for onward travel to its new home. All three subsequently moved to the Epping Ongar Railway in April 2022<ref>Post on National Preservation Forum, "Rolling Stock Movements" tread, 28 April 2022</ref>.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File: LT_HW_411_20150426.jpg | HW 411
File: LT_HW_436_20150426.jpg | HW 436
</gallery>
==See also==
*[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]]*[[Wagons formerly resident on the SVR]] ==References==<references /> [[Category:Featured articles]][[Category:London Underground stock]][[Category:Rolling stock at the Stourport Triangle]]
