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[[FileCategory:Rolling stock in Bewdley Down Yard]][[Category: Rolling stock owned by The GWR 813 Preservation Fund]]{{Infobox wagon|image = GWR 107291 Macaw B Bogie Bolster.jpg|thumb|400px|right|caption = GWR 107291 Macaw B Bogie Bolster]]|construc = GWR Swindon|status = |wagno = 107291|othernos = |designed = |diagram = J21|lot = 1169|wagtype = Bogie bolster|capacity = 30 tons|telcode = MACAW B|topscode = |brakes = |built = 1935|years1 = 1971|events1 = Arrived on SVR|years2 = 1985|events2 = GWR 159 main line appearance|years3 = |events3 = 1107291 }}107291 was built at Swindon in 1935 to Diagram J 2521, Lot 1169. <ref name=Atkins>[[Bibliography#Other References|Atkins, Beard & Tourret (2013)]] p. 21.</ref> It is a ‘Macaw ‘MACAW B’ 45 foot 30 ton Bogie Bolster wagon. Bolsters are the raised wooden baulks on which the load was carried; often these had movable stakes at the ends of each bolster to prevent the load sliding off the side of the wagon. The wagon was fitted with two bogies, each with 4 wheels. 107291 was acquired by The [[Great Western (SVR) Assoc.]] in 1971 from the Round Oak Steel Works, Brierley Hill, arriving on 22 March in that year. It was quickly restored for use in service as a P.W. vehicle, that use being interrupted by a brief spell as a mock ‘Pullman’ carriage for filming in 1975.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book 9th Edition</ref>
In 1985, 107291 appeared on the main line when it was acquired by 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 [[Great Western (SVR) Assoc.2857|GWR freight loco 2857]] in 1971 from the Round Oak Steel Works, Brierley Hill, arriving on 22 March in that year. It was quickly restored for use in service as a P.W. vehicle, that use being interrupted by a brief spell as a mock ‘Pullman’ carriage for filming in 1975. <ref>SVR News 78</ref> It was completely re-decked and repainted in 1986, and has seen saw regular use as a transporter of rails, sleepers and point-work on the railway.<ref name=SB9>SVR Stock Book 9th Edition</ref>
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