25 August 2011
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Sheffield Railwayana Auction in June brings in good prices
The Sheffield Railwayana Auction held at Derby on Saturday 11th June featured some fine steam era locomotive nameplates and train headboards. The top price of the day was a hammer price of £18,500 (plus 10% buyer's premium + VAT), paid for 'Lord Rutherford of Nelson' from LMS 'Jubilee' Class 4-6-0 No 45665. ...
The Sheffield Railwayana Auction held at Derby on Saturday 11th June featured some fine steam era locomotive nameplates and train headboards.
The top price of the day was a hammer price of £18,500 (all prices quoted are hammer prices to which 10% buyer's premium + VAT must be added), paid for 'Lord Rutherford of Nelson' from LMS 'Jubilee' Class 4-6-0 No 45665. This locomotive was unusually named after the famous scientist, Ernest Rutherford, and the two-line name made it particularly sought after. Another ex-'Jubilee' plate 'Ulster', from No 45739, went for £10,600. The 1977 vintage LNWR Precedent Class plate 'Phantom' sold at £12,440, while 'Beaconsfield', from 1875-built GWR Queen Class 2-2-2 No 1122, surprisingly came in under the £10k mark at £9,600.
'The Thames-Clyde Express' headboard, as carried by the post-war St Pancras-Glasgow St Enoch service, sold at £4,350, while 'The Norseman' with its twin Viking longboat badges, an East Coast Main Line 1950s/mid-1960s working between King's Cross and Newcastle, went for £2,400.
Diesel locomotive worksplates fared well with £1,800 paid for English Electric/Vulcan Foundry 2926/D578 of 1961 from 'Deltic' D9021, while North British locomotive No.27994 of 1962 from 'Warship' D865 sold for £1,550.
The attraction of the Southern Railway's narrow gauge Lynton & Barnstaple Railway was proved again when an enamel poster heading board sold at £3,000! A British Railways Eastern Region station totem sign from Biggleswade sold well at £2,100, while St Neots, from a little further north on the same line, went at £400.
An attractive brass single line staff key engraved “Betwen The Mound and Dornoch” on both sides sold for £2,400, while a brass single line tablet “Robin Hoods Bay-Prospect Hill 15” raised £1,050. An LNER signal box board from Cleethorpes found a new home at £920, while, still on the East Coast, the signalbox diagram for Mablethorpe Junction went for £550, with that from Mablethorpe Station reaching £480.
The next Sheffield Railwayana Auction is to be held at Derby on Saturday 10th September.
PICTURED: Some of the steam locomotive nameplates and train headboards featured in the 11th June Sheffield Railwayana Auction.