LMS Derby and Crewe quartet joined by BeyerGarratt in Great Northern four- week sale
GREATN orthern'se mail, telephone and postal sale that runs for four weeks from September 26 will be headlined by nameplates from four locomotives built by the LMS at Derby and Crewe in the mid- 1930s, and all withdrawn within 10 months of each other in 1964.
They are Southport from Patriot No. 45527 and Kenya, Sandwich and Minotaur from Jubilee Nos. 45613, 45641, and 45695. The first of this quartet of 4- 6- 0s was built at Derby in March 1933, while Crewe outshopped Nos. 45613 in August 1934,45641 four months later, and 45695 in March 1936. The Patriot and No. 45613 ended their days at Carlisle Kingmoor ( 12A), No. 45641 at Burton ( 16F), and No. 45695 at the Leeds shed of Farnley Junction ( SSC).
Another nameplate is Sir Henry Co/ vile, c arried by EastA frican Railways' Class 60' Governor'Beyer- Garratt
No. 6025 ( works No. 7721) built at Gorton in 1954 and withdrawn in 1973. This 4- 8- 2+ 2- 8- 4 was named after a Leicestershire- bornE, toneducated, Boer War general and former Commissioner for Uganda who died in November 1907 in a motorcycle accident in Surrey at the age of 55.
Other locomotive items include a cabside numberplate from GWR No. 4989 Cherwell Hall - yet another 4- 6- 0 that was pensioned off in 1964, when a resident of Severn Tunnel Junction ( 86E) - and the smokebox numberplate from Standard Class 9F 2- 10- 0 No. 92109, which emerged from Crewe in October 1956 and was taken out of service from Birkenhead ( 8H) in November 1967.
There are also two Great Northern Railway fully- engraved worksplates, from J6 class 0- 6- 0 No. 64270 ( works No. 1532) and JS0 class 0- 6- 0T
No. 68922 ( works No. 1546), built at Doncaster in 1921 and 1922 respectively, a GNR 1856 timetable that was found behind wallpaper in a shop in Coppergate, York, during refurbishment, a Victorian notice board from the same company, and a pair of ex- Caledonian Railway and North British Railway trunk clocks.
A metal letters on wood running- in board from a small station that was open for fewer than seven years nearly 100 years ago will also feature in the sale. It is Garstang Road, from a request haltthat was opened by the LMS in October 1923 on the Garstang & Knott End Railwayi n Lancashirea nd closed in March 1930, when passenger services were withdrawn over the entire 11 ½ mile line.
The auction will end its fourweek run on October 24 and will follow the format of Great Northern's sale held in early April at the start of the coronavirus lockdown. A full colour catalogue will be distributed to registered bidders.