Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 2 December 2017
| Lot 46 | A smokebox numberplate, 6949, from a GWR 4900 Hall Class 4-6-0 built at Swindon in December 1942 and named HABERFIELD HALL in May 1947 after the Victorian country house near Bristol. It was one of eleven Halls converted to oil burning and was renumbered 3955 when converted in May 1947, reverting to its original number when re-converted in April 1949. Allocated to Laira by January 1948 and later Swindon, Stafford Road, Banbury, Taunton and Shrewsbury from where it was withdrawn on 12 May 1961 and cut up at Swindon Works in the week ending 3 June 1961. The front repainted. £500-800 |
| This lot sold for £800 to commission or postal bidder number 7673. |
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