Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 2 September 2017
| Lot 369 | A smokebox numberplate, 63868, from a 2-8-0 built to Ministry of Munitions order for the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers to Robinson's Great Central design by the North British Locomotive Co, Works No 22172, in 1919, ROD No 2081, and loaned to the Caledonian Railway. It was returned to the ROD in 1921 and placed in store at Gretna until purchased by the LNER in 1927, their Class O4/3 No 6625. It was rebuilt as an O1 in 1945 and renumbered 3868 in 1946, becoming BR 63868. Allocated to Gorton by January 1948 and then Annesley (where it worked the famous fast freights nicknamed windcutters to Woodford Halse until displaced by the BR Standard 2-10-0s in 1957), March, Staveley GC and Langwith Junction from where it was withdrawn on 11 July 1965 and cut up by Drapers at Hull during the week ending 6 November 1965. The front repainted. £300-500 |
| This lot sold for £340. |
