Great Central Railwayana Auctions

Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 3 September 2016

Great Central Railwayana Auction Sale 216, Auction Lot 18
Lot 18 A smokebox numberplate, 1474, from a GWR Collett 0-4-2T built at Swindon in April 1936. Numbered 4874 when built, it was renumbered 1474 in November 1946. At Machynlleth by January 1948, its later sheds were Southall, Weymouth, Reading, Slough, Gloucester LMR and Gloucester WR from where it was withdrawn in the week ending 12 September 1964 and sold for scrap to Birds Commercial Motors at Morriston on 27 October 1964. The front repainted. £400-600
 This lot sold for £900 to commission or postal bidder number 991.

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