BR Brake Van - Mainline Blue - B954726 Wagon Type_HCA Hopper Luckily it was bought by

Luckily it was bought by scrap merchant Dai Woodham and spent a number of years languishing before being moved to the Dean Forest Railway and returned to steam in 1984

DRSL 92736 [Dragon] DRSL 92779 [2896 blue] DRSL 92798 [2896 grey]

while the BR double arrow was finally ditched – an original condition of the new sector identity from ‘the board’ – in favour of the West of England route branding

Returned to action in 1977 at the Severn Valley Railway it was back on the main line in 1985 as part of the Great Western 150 celebrations and heavily featured in British Rail’s ‘Cardigan Bay Express’ services on its old stamping ground in 1987

BR Brake Van - Mainline Blue - B954726 Wagon Type_HCA Hopper Luckily it was bought byDual piped Roller bearing axlebox Planked bodyside Screw couplings OLEO buffers 2 external pipes