Heritage Class 50s and Deltics are top dogs ahead of overseas steam

HERITAGE modern traction jostled with overseas steam for the leading railway realisations in a Justaclickago online auction of photographs, slides, and negatives that ran from May 23-29. Class 50 diesels from the 1980s and 1990s emerged the winner at £490, with 520 colour slides of the West Country, London and other locations.

The mighty Class 55 ‘Deltics’ came next, when 250 colour slides taken in the early 1980s in BR service and in the preservation era sold for £430, followed by two lots at £410 apiece, comprising overseas traction and UK infrastructure.

The overseas selection consisted of 425 colour slides of steam, diesel, electric, and railcars in the 1980s and 1990s covering such European and further afield countries as Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, Holland, India, Hong Kong and Australia.

Stations, junctions, rolling stock, signalling, and other subjects were included in the infrastructure collection, which comprised 245 colour slides taken in 1966 and 1968, some from trains or the footplate. Among locations in England and Wales were Aberystwyth, Shrewsbury, Bolton, Carlisle, and Retford. Prices exclude buyer’s premium of 18%.