Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 4 March 2017
| Lot 274 | A smokebox numberplate, 90586, from a War Department Austerity 2-8-0 built to Ministry of Supply order by Vulcan Foundry, Works No 4951, in November 1943, WD No 77135, and loaned new to the LNER, allocated to Newport NER, and in September 1944 to the GWR, allocated to Severn Tunnel Junction. Returned to the WD in February 1945 and again loaned to the LNER in October 1947, allocated to Neville Hill. Following acquisition by BR its later sheds were Hull Springhead and Hull Dairycoates from where it was withdrawn on 13 February 1966 and cut up by Drapers at Hull by 25 June 1966. The front repainted; a weld repair between the 5 and 8. £250-400 |
| This lot sold for £360. |
