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{{Infobox wagon|image = SR 56291 Bogie Brake Van.jpg |caption = SR Brake Van 56291 (Jan 2016)|construc = SR Lancing/Ashford|status = Unrestored|wagno = 56291|othernos = KDS 56291|designed = |diagram = 1550|lot = 867|wagtype = Brake Van|telcode = ‘Queen Mary’|brakes = Vacuum braked|built = 1936|years1 = 1975|events1 = Entered preservation|years2 = 1985|events2 = Appeared on the main line|years3 = |events3 = |years4 = |events4 = |years5 = |events5 = |years6 = |events6 = }}[[File: SR_56291_20150402.jpg |thumb|200px300px|right| SR Brake Van 56291(Apr 2015)]]The majority of goods brake vans were of the 20 ton type. However 56291 is an example of a Southern Region 25 ton brake van, equipped with vacuum brakes and fitted with redundant carriage bogies to allow running at up to 75 mph on fast mail and parcel trains. These type of brake vans were often used on boat trains from Southampton, earning them the nickname “Queen Mary”.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition</ref>

==Service and Preservation==56291 was built by the SR at Lancing/Ashford in 1936to Diagram 1550, Lot 867. It arrived on the SVR <ref>Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey</ref> Post-nationalisation it was used in 1996 from London’s Old Oak CommonBR’s Southern and Western regions, privately owned by J.J. Smith. It is photographed ending service in the “Bewdley Triangle” between the SVR and the Stourport BranchBR’s S&T Department works trains, for which it was renumbered KDS 56291.<ref name=SB9/>

56291 arrived on the SVR on 27 November 1993 from London’s Old Oak Common. It is privately owned by J.J. Smith and is stored at the [[Stourport Triangle]] awaiting restoration. ==SourcesSee also==Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey<br>[[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagons]] ==References==Severn Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition<brreferences />

*[http://www.ws.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=8154 56291 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]<br>

==See also== [[Category:Brake vans]][[Category:Rolling stock at the Stourport Triangle]] [[Goods Wagons | List of goods wagonsCategory:Featured articles]]