GWR 99766

GWR 99766 Open 'A' 4 Plank Open Wagon

Built 1902
Capacity 10 Tons
Acquired 1990
Built by W.R. Renshaw Stoke-on-Trent for Brecon & Merthyr Railway 197
Absorbed by GWR 1923 and renumbered 99766 fitted with standard GWR O.K. axleboxes
Branded "For creosoted sleepers - Return to Birkenhead" 2/1931
Re branded "Return Empty to Marchwiel" (1/1941)
and "Return to Porthywaen" (3/1942)
Withdrawn from service 9/1944 and believed to have been sold to Admiralty as RNAD 233
Purchased from MOD RNAD Gosport
Severn Valley Railway

Gareth Price