Heritage Railway

Victorian railway companies and live steam models are Great Northern late arrivals

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TWO early Victorian railway companies feature in late entries in Great Northern Railwayana's two-week auction that ends on October 12. From the Furness Railway, which started operations in 1846, comes a panel cut from a wooden carriage that carries the company's coat of arms, and from the Oldham Ashton & Guide Bridge Junction Railway a boundary marker engraved on local gritstone. This 6½-mile line ran its first trains in 1861 and was vested jointly in the GCR and LNWR in 1908.

Gauge one live steam models going under the online hammer are LMS ‘Black 5' No. 44893 and LNER V2 No. 4795 ( BR No. 60824), and there's the whistle from Northern Counties Committee of Ireland U2 class 4-4-0 No. 83 Carra Castle, one of whose nameplates was sold at Great Central's September 4 auction, as reported in this column.

Posters include an LMS circa 1930 ‘Travel speed comfort' example, advertisin­g third class travel at 1d per mile and first class at 1½d. The artwork, featuring a Royal Scot 4-6-0, is by Bryan de Grineau (1883-1957), who was the war artist for Illustrate­d London News in both world wars and also the Government's official Second World War artist.

The star lot in the auction is a nameplate from 1937 Crewe-built LMS Princess Coronation Pacific No. 46224 Princess Alexandra with its works and tender plates, as featured in issue 282.

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