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BR971 - "W" and number

BR971 - "W" and number
The letter "W" and the waggon fleet number "971".

For information; the metal plate is the "Batter Plate" (or "batter board") - each hopper has three per side. Their purpose is to protect the planking when sledgehammers were used to free up locked or frozen loads of coal and persuade the contents to fall out of the trapdoors.

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