Loose-coupled wagons only had hand-operated sprag brakes which had to be applied individually, for example, before descending a gradient Trains were prone to broken coupling chains, so the brake van was essential for bringing a train to a halt under such circumstances From 1968, the requirement for a brake van to be coupled to a fitted train (wagons with vacuum brakes) was removed from the rule book BR adopted the LNER Toad D van as the basis for its own standard brake van design This OO gauge model van is an example of a BR 20T Brake Van
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