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|status = Static use
|carno = 98
|othernos = W98, W98W|designed = Collett / Hawksworth|diagram = K42|lot = 1665|cartype = [[:Category:Carriage Type BG|BG]]|length = 57ft 0in|weight = 28t 5cwt
|seats = None
|built = 1945
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}}As with the earlier ‘[[GWR 1145 Toplight 'Snake C' Passenger Brake|Snake C]]’, the GWR Gangwayed Full Brake (BG) No 98 was built to Diagram K42, Lot 1665 at Swindon in 1945, during Frederick Hawksworth’s tenure as Chief Mechanical Engineer. As with the earlier ‘Snake C’, this full brake 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 was built at Swindon to Diagram K42, a late Collett design of which the first examples date to 1937, although by the time No 98 was completed in 1945 as part of Lot 1665, Frederick Hawksworth had succeeded Collett as Chief Mechanical Engineer.<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Harris (1966)]] p. 154.</ref> At 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.<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Longworth (2018)]] p.8.</ref> 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"/>==Preservation==[[File: GWR_98_20150411.jpg|thumb|right|300px|GWR 98 in Bewdley Down Yard, and April 2015]]No 98 was purchased from Manchester Red Bank Sidings in 1978 by the [[The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]], arriving on 1 June 1978 still painted in BR blue livery. <ref>SVR Stock Book Seventh Edition</ref> It was used on SVR trains in 1978/79, as [[Santa's Grotto]] in the early 1980s and later used subsequently as a workshop at [[Kidderminster]]. <ref>SVR News 66</ref><ref name=SB9/> It No 98 is now kept at under tarpaulins in [[Bewdley yard Down Yard]] where it is used as store and workshop.
==See also==
[[Carriages| List of carriages]]<br>
==References==
==Links==
*[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=35 98 on vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]<br>*[http://www.gwr813.org/pagew1.html 98 on GWR 813 web site]
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