November 2024 RAILWAY MEMORABILIA & RAILWAYANA AUCTION
Live Online Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th November 2024.
1000 Lots of Quality Railwayana including a world record amount of 110 BR Totem Signs, 75 Posters, 49 Steam, Diesel & Electric locomotive nameplates, 50 Smokebox numberplates.
Hopefully something to suit everyone and keeps us firmly at the front of Worldwide Railwayana Auctions.
LIVE ONLINE ONLY RAILWAY MEMORABILIA & RAILWAYANA AUCTION
Lots 1 - 533 Saturday 16th November Starts 9.30am Prompt
Lots 534 - 1000 Sunday 17th November Starts 10.00am Prompt
We auction around 100 lots per hour.
Bidding
1. Bids will be accepted by email, post and telephone up to and including Friday 15th November 6pm
2. Phone bidding will be allowed only on lots valued at over £500 and will have limited availability
3. GWRA Live bid will carry our normal buyers premium of 18% inc vat (we are absorbing the internet charge)
Viewing will be allowed by appointment only and you need to request which lots you wish to view, there will be no general viewing, please note our High Resolution photographs form part of the description.
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Payments
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- Advertising Signs
- Armbands
- Badges / Buttons
- Books
- Bus / Motoring
- Cabside Numberplates
- Carriage Boards
- Carriage Prints
- Cash Bags
- Cast Iron Signs
- China
- Clocks
- Depot Plaques
- Direction Signs
- Doorplates Cast Iron
- Doorplates Enamel
- Enamel Signs Railway
- Finger / Dest Boards
- Glassware
- Handlamps
- Hawkseyes
- Headboards
- LT / Modern Image
- Lamp Tablets
- Lamps Loco
- Lamps Misc
- Lamps Station
- Loco Items
- Maps / Photos
- Misc
- Nameplates Diesel
- Nameplates Electric
- Nameplates Steam
- Office&Gen Equipment
- Oil Cans
- Paintings
- Passes / Medals
- Paychecks
- Posters
- Pullman
- Roadsigns
- Running in Boards
- Seat Back Names
- Seats & Benches
- Shedplates / Plaques
- Signal Box Boards
- Signal Box Diagrams
- Signal Box Instruments
- Signal Box Shelf
- Signal Finials/Arms
- Signal Lever Plates
- Silver Ware
- Single Line Keys
- Single Line Tablets
- Smokebox Numberplates
- Station Furniture
- Targets LT SR
- Tenderplates
- Totem Signs
- Wagonplates
- Watches
- Whistles Loco
- Worksplates Diesel
- Worksplates Electric
- Worksplates Steam
Smokebox numberplate 47677 ex LMS Fowler 3F 0-6-0T built at Horwich in 1931 and numbered LMS 16760 and 7677. Allocated to Rugby, Birkenhead Mollington Street and 5B Crewe South from where it was withdrawn in November 1965 and scrapped at Cashmore's Great Bridge. Lightly cleaned condition.
Smokebox NumberplatesAluminium sawcut cabside panel 47229. Ex British Railways Class 47 diesel locomotive. built at Brush Traction, Loughborough as works number 667 entered service as D1905 allocated to 86A Cardiff Canton. Renumbered to 47229 Oct 1973. Withdrawn from service Dec 2006 and scrapped at T J Thompson (Stockton) Mar 2007. Panel has been neatly trimmed and measures 34in x 33in. The panel is accompanied by its original BR cast aluminium double arrow with an official Railfreight Certificate dated 1996 for the double arrow.
Cabside NumberplatesWorksplate BRUSH TRACTION ENGLAND No. 72 1957 ex British Railways Class 31 Toffee Apple originally numbered D5501 becoming 31001 Feb 1974. Allocated new to 30A Stratford Nov 1957 and withdrawn from there Jul 1976. To Doncaster Works Nov 1976 and cut up Jan 1977. Oval cast aluminium, face restored, measures 9.675in x 5.75in. A rare worksplate as only three Class 31s carried a 1957 date.
Worksplates DieselWorksplate HUNSLET BARCLAY CALEDONIA WORKS 6768 REBUILT 1990 KILMARNOCK SCOTLAND ex 0-6-0 Diesel Hydraulic originally Andrew Barclay 659 1982. Upon rebuilt it was one of three that were leased and supplied to British Steel Ebbw Vale and named TRACEY, after Ebbw Vale the loco was named Sam and used on the Manchester Ship Canal. Oval cast aluminium in as removed condition measures 9.875in x 7.375in. A rare worksplate.
Worksplates DieselNameplate THE KINGS SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY ex British Railways Peak Class 45 diesel D50 later becoming 45040 Jan 1975 and 97412 Oct 1987. Allocated new to 17A Toton May 1962. Named at Toton depot in May 1965 without ceremony. The nameplates were removed when the loco was withdrawn from Tinsley Jul 1987. Loco transferred to Departmental stock Oct 1987 and numbered 97412 until withdrawn again Aug 1988. Stored in Tinsley Yard until Oct 1991 when it was moved to MC Metal Processing, Glasgow and cut up there Nov 1991. Nameplate rectangular cast aluminium, crest circular cast aluminium (not a resin replacement) both mounted on original steel back board, nameplate has been restored, measures 58in x 21in overall.
Nameplates DieselNameplate QUEEN ELIZABETH ex GWR Churchward Star Class 4-6-0 built at Swindon in 1910 and numbered 4036. Allocated to Old Oak Common and 82C Swindon from where it was withdrawn in March 1952 and scrapped at Swindon Works. In nicely restored condition with R 4036 stamped in the back indicating this is the right hand plate. Comes complete with an original Great Western Railway splasher to mount it on.
Nameplates SteamSmokebox numberplate 68408 ex North Eastern Railway BTP (bogie tank passenger)0-4-4T built in 1875 by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Ltd as works number 1685, rebuilt as a J77 0-6-0T in 1904 and numbered NER 1438 and LNER 8408. Allocated to Blyth North and withdrawn in February 1961 and scrapped. In lightly face restored condition, the first time a smokebox numberplate from this class has appeared at auction.
Smokebox NumberplatesWorksplate LNER 9x5 LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY 1621 GATESHEAD WORKS 1893. Ex North Eastern Railway Worsdell D17 4-4-0 numbered NER 1621 and LNER 1621. Withdrawn in July 1945 and preserved for the York Railway museum where it was returned back to its original North Eastern Railway livery and the LNER plates removed . Oval cast brass face restored measures 9.25in x 5.25in.
Worksplates SteamWorksplate HUDSWELL CLARKE & CO LTD RAILWAY FOUNDRY LEEDS No 707 1905 ex Swansea Harbour Trust 0-4-0 ST numbered 1 and used at the Prince of Wales Dock. In 1915 the locomotive was sold to Graig Merthyr and then sent to Felin Fran in the 1950s where it was scrapped in 1966. Oval engraved brass, face polished measures 12.75in x 8in and complete with a nice oak mounting plinth.
Worksplates Steam