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Worksplate BEYER PEACOCK & CO LTD 7075 BEYER GARRATT LOCOMOTIVE PATENETS 298422-518251 MANCHESTER 1944. Built for the Kenya Uganda Railway (war Department no 4418) type 4-8-2+2-8-4 and numbered 89 and later EAR no 5401. Oval cast iron measuring 10.25in x 5.25in. In as removed condition a rare Wartime cast iron plate and one of only 25 locomotives built with this style of plate.
Auction: July 2022Worksplate. LMS Built Derby 1926, oval cast brass small crack to top. Probably ex 4F
Auction: December 2021 Sold for: £80Worksplate LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY DARLINGTON WORKS 1935 4860 ex Gresley J39 0-6-0 numbered LNER 1436, 4860 and BR 64860. Allocated to Leeds Neville Hill, Starbeck, Selby and 52A Gateshead from where it was withdrawn in December 1962. Scrapped at Darlington Works the following year. Oval cast brass, face restored, measures 9in x 5in.
Auction: July 2021 Sold for: £200Worksplate NORTH BRITISH LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY LTD GLASGOW No 25867 1946 ex Thompson B1 4-6-0 numbered 61111. Allocated to Leicester (G.C.), Colwick, Woodford Halse, Kings Cross, Neasden, Stratford, Parkeston Quay and 41A Sheffield Darnal in September 1962. Scrapped the following year at Cashmores Great Bridge. Diamond shaped cast brass in lightly cleaned condition. Measures 13.5in x 5.5in.
Auction: March 2021 Sold for: £240Worksplate LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY N.B. LOCO CO 1947 61230 ex Thompson B1 4-6-0 built by The North British Locomotive Company Glasgow as order number L963 works number 26131. Allocated to Ardsley and 56G Bradford Hammerton Street from where it was withdrawn in November 1962. Scrapped the following year at Darlington Works. Oval cast brass, lightly face restored, measures 9in x 5in.
Auction: March 2021 Sold for: £280Worksplate LOCOMOTIVFABRIK KRAUSS & CIE MUNCHEN & LINZ 1903 No 4955. Ex 1050mm gauge 0-6-0T, one of 12 supplied for the opening of the Hedjaz pilgrim railway from Damascus to Medina. 4955 was initially Hedjaz no.4 but subsequently re-numbered 10 and then 15. It survived the predations of T.E. Lawrence in World War One (No.17 is still out in the Arabian desert where he derailed it in 1917) and was taken into Palestine Rlys. stock after WWI but withdrawn in 1930, so it is likely the plate survived transferred to another of the class, some of which lasted into the 1950s Oval cast brass measuring 14in x 9.25in. Has been lightly cleaned. Together with a cast brass Nameplate in Arabic which roughly translates as Raouf pasha. Unfortunately we have been unable to find any information on the locomotive that carried this, the plate is curved to fit onto the side of a smokebox.
Auction: November 2020 Sold for: £1,500Worksplate LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY DONCASTER WORKS 1931 7615 ex Gresley V1 2-6-2 T rebuilt as a V3. Originally numbered 2915 then 7615 and lastly 67615. A 64B Haymarket locomotive for most of its service life and withdrawn from there in December 1962 and scrapped at Inverurie. Oval cast brass measuring 9in x 5in. Face cleaned and number chiselled off but visible.
Auction: July 2020 Not sold, reserve: £150Worksplate W. G. BAGNALL LTD ENGINEERS STAFFORD ENGLAND No 2404 ex Great Western Railway Collett 0-6-0 PT built in 1930 and numbered 6723. Allocated to Barry and 87K Swansea Victoria from where it was withdrawn in February 1959. Scrapped later the same year at T. W. Ward Briton Ferry. Oval cast brass in as removed condition measuring 6.5in x 4.25in.
Auction: July 2019 Sold for: £400