Auction Catalogue: Great Central Railwayana, 25 April 2009
| Lot 82 | A smokebox numberplate "6019", from the GWR "King" Class 4-6-0 "KING HENRY V" built at Swindon in July 1928 under Lot No 243, the last of the first batch of Kings. It spent its early years at Stafford Road where it worked the 2-hour Birmingham Snow Hill to Paddington expresses but most of its later years were spent at Old Oak Common apart from brief stays at the end at Cardiff Canton and finally Stafford Road from where it was withdrawn in September 1962. After a couple of months in store at Old Oak Common, it was cut up at Cashmores, Newport the following December. A rare opportunity to acquire a numberplate from the premier Great Western class and only the second to appear in auction since 2002. The plate is in unrestored condition with original paintwork on the front and back, the numbers are unpainted. The plate has never been offered for sale before and has been entered by the person who removed it from the locomotive in the 1960s. |
| This lot sold for £3600 |
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