JaCA brings global dimension to colour slide show

COLOUR slides from the UK, mainland Europe, Africa, and Asia have brought a global dimension to a six-day sale being held by specialist auction house Justaclickago that ends on November 27. From home there are 1960s Manchester and Peak District images of steam and diesels, including the lowest-numbered diesel of them all, Class 44 D1 Scafell Pike, and Isle of Wight and Hayling Island early-1960s steam from the collection of the late Barry Owen.

This collection also includes original Newport Godshill & St Lawrence Railway plans of station buildings and a track plan of station yards that were rescued in the early 1960s from a skip outside a closed station that was being converted into a house. The railway opened in two stages in 1897 and 1900, and was bought by the Isle of Wight Central Railway in 1913.

France, Spain, Germany, South Africa, Indonesia, India and Pakistan are the countries in the overseas slide selection, much of it depicting steam, while from back home comes a selection of BR publicity photographs of diesels, from November 1947-built Co-Co No. 10000 to the HSTs and APT.

There is also a selection of North Eastern Railway and LNER glassplate negatives of steam and infrastructure from the late19th and early 20th centuries, and a collection of GCR, LNER and BR railwayana and paperwork from the Clifton-on-Trent to Lincoln section of the Chesterfield to Lincoln line, which opened in March 1897 and was closed to passengers in September 1955.

Within the collection is a variety of artefacts from the stations of Cliftonon-Trent and Doddington & Harby, including a 1909 GCR rent book, a ticket counterfoil booklet from 1918-20, and an LNER signalbox register dated July-November 1946, believed to be from Clifton-on-Trent.