B&MR 99766 4 plank Open Goods Wagon

B&MRBrecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway 99766 4 plank Open Goods Wagon
GWRGreat Western Railway 99766 4 plank Open Goods Wagon
Built By	W.R. Renshaw, Stoke-on-Trent
Number	197
Other Numbers	99766, RNAD233
History
Built	1902
Type	Open 'A' 4 Plank Open Wagon
Capacity	10 tons
1923	Absorbed, renumbered and modified by GWRGreat Western Railway
1944	Withdrawn and sold for RNADRoyal Naval Armaments Depot use
1990	Preserved
Goods Wagons

The only surviving complete vehicle from the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway, this Open 'A' four plank open was built in 1902 by Renshaws of Stoke-On-Trent as B&MRBrecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway number 197. The body only of BMR coach no. 111 also survives.

197 was one of 55 B&MRBrecon & Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway steel framed opens fitted with 'OK' oil axle boxes and buffers by the GWRGreat Western Railway at the 1923 grouping and one of only three to survive beyond the 1930s, eventually being condemned and apparently sold to the War Department or Admiralty in 1944 and renumbered RNAD233. Hidden from public view within the Royal Navy's Armament Depot at Gosport for over 40 years, it was bought at auction by the The GWR 813 Preservation Fund in 1990.

See also

List of goods wagons

Links

GWR 813 Preservation Fund Newsletter Summer 1997
99766 on www.vintagecarriagestrust.org
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway on Wikipedia