Great Central Railwayana Auctions

GCR Fortnightly Sales: Lot 65, Sale 286

Closing Days: Bidding closes on Wednesday, 5 August at 5:00pm with "Final Bid" on Thursday, 6 August & Friday, 7 August 2020

Great Central Railwayana Auction Sale 286, Auction Lot 65

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Lot 65

Smokeboxes

6915 (Mursley Hall)
A smokebox numberplate, 6915, from a GWR 4900 Hall Class 4-6-0 built at Swindon in February 1941 and named when built MURSLEY HALL after a country house in the village of Mursley, Buckinghamshire, demolished in the 1960s. Allocated to Oxley by January 1948, its later sheds included Swindon, Bristol Bath Road, Didcot, Shrewsbury and Banbury from where it was withdrawn in the week ending 13 February 1965 and sold for scrap to Cohens at Morriston. The front repainted. £400-600
 This lot sold for £540 to bidder number 2722.

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Great Central Railwayana Auction Sale 286, Lot 65

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