Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 2 December 2017
| Lot 87 | A nameplate BARABEL, from a standard gauge 0-4-0ST with outside cylinders built by Hudswell Clarke, Works No 1868, in 1953, which went new to the Oxfordshire Ironstone Co Ltd for work at their Wroxton quarries, near Banbury. The name derives from the wife of Mr A.C. Stewart, Chairman of Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd, parent owners of the Oxfordshire Ironstone company. The locomotive was withdrawn in 1964 and sold for scrap to G. Cohen Sons & Co. Ltd. Cransley, Northants in 1965. The nameplates were transferred to a new Sentinel diesel-hydraulic locomotive, Works No 10202, new to Wroxton quarries in December 1964. In July 1967 it was transferred to Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd, Bromford Tube Works, Birmingham and later passed to Round Oak Rail Terminal at Brierley Hill, West Midlands. In March 2006 it passed to its current location with the Nene Valley Railway at Wansford. Cast brass, length 31", the front cleaned but unpainted. £500-800 |
| This lot sold for £460. |
