Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 2 December 2017
| Lot 289 | A (GWR) cabside numberplate 7010 from the 4073 Castle Class 4-6-0 AVONDALE CASTLE built at Swindon in June 1948 and named after a ruin and mound in the centre of Strathavon in South Lanarkshire, a Scheduled Ancient Monument more often known as Strathavon Castle. Allocated new to Old Oak Common, it moved in July 1948 to Oxford, returning in 1952 to 81A where it spent the remainder of its working life with a final short stay at Reading from where it was withdrawn in the week ending 7 March 1964 and sold for scrap to Hayes at Bridgend on 23 April 1964. Cast brass, the front repainted. £3000-4000 |
| This lot sold for £5200. |
