Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 3 December 2016
| Lot 34 | A nameplate, SIR KEITH PARK, with BATTLE OF BRITAIN CLASS appendage below, together with its matching badge depicting the Royal Air Force eagle crest, from the Southern Railway Bulleid Light Pacific 4-6-2 No 21C153 built at Brighton in January 1947 and named at a ceremony at Brighton station on 19 September 1947, together with Fighter Pilot and Tangmere, after the RAF WWII Commander, a New Zealander (1892-1975) who rose to the rank of Air Chief Marshal. It became BR 34053 and was rebuilt without its original streamlined casing in November 1958. Allocated new to Salisbury where it spent most of its working life, with brief spells at Stewarts Lane, Nine Elms and Exmouth Junction, it moved in March 1960 to Bournemouth from where it was withdrawn on 17 October 1965 and despatched for scrap to Woodham Bros at Barry on 11 January 1966. Acquired for preservation in 1979, it moved from Barry in 1984. Now owned by Southern Locomotives Ltd, it has been fully restored and usually works on the Severn Valley Railway but is currently on hire to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. The nameplate cast brass 60" long, the enamel badge oval 21½"x27½", both in ex loco condition. (2) £25000-35000 |
| This lot sold for £28000. |
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