File:GWR wagon Toad Brake Van 35290 at the Swindon Railway Museum - August 2018.jpg

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STEAM - Swindon - 27 August 2018

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English: In 1852, the Great Western Railway required every goods train to have a brake van with a handbrake controlled by a guard. This style of van was introduced in the 1880s.

The wide veranda gave the guards a good view and also housed the brake handle, used by the guard to control the speed of the train when needed. Inside the van, the guard would have had emergency equipment and a stove – useful on longer winter nights.

The brake van on display at STEAM is a typical GWR design, built at Swindon Works in 1946. It was still in service in the 1990s on track engineering trains.
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