Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 2 December 2017
| Lot 197 | A smokebox numberplate, 8487, from a (GWR) 9400 Class 0-6-0PT built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns, Works No 7457, in July 1952 as sub-contractors for Hudswell Clarke & Co Ltd who also allotted their own Works No 1835. Allocated new to Gloucester on 2 July 1952 where it spent most of its career with a break in 1961/2 at Bromsgrove where its duties were as one of the Lickey bankers. It spent its final months at Old Oak Common from where it was withdrawn in the week ending 9 November 1963 and quickly despatched for scrap to Meyer Newman at Blackwall on 19 November. Original red paint, probably done during its time at Bromsgrove. £350-500 |
| This lot sold for £620 to commission or postal bidder number 3059. |
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