Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 2 December 2017

	Lot 88
	A Great Northern Railway mid-nineteenth century 12" roundhead clock probably used at Leicester Belgrave Road. Overall height: 14¼". The mahogany case with side and bottom doors the latter originally with a lock now replaced by a latch; no evidence of any LMS number plate. Dial surround retaining original bezel lock and holding a replacement old style spun brass bezel hinged on the left. Dial written John Walker 1, South Molton St. London with the shadow of BR (LM) around the top and (probably) the number 9381 with the central digits crudely reinstated at the bottom. Good early Walker style chain fusee movement with saddle backcock. LNER records have this clock in the Inwards Office at Belgrave Road and annotated recording its transfer to the LM region in 1950. This is a typical Walker clock; Walkers regularly supplied the GNR but not the MR. An LM Region Census in the late 1960s shows 9381 (with no indication that this is an ex-LNER number) at Aylestone Jct. Signal Box on the other side of Leicester. Complete with pendulum, winder and copy of entry for 9381 in the LNER records. £400-600
	This lot sold for £760 to commission or postal bidder number 8641.

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