£1,500 - £2,000
A nameplate PRINCESS together with its matching worksplate MANNING WARDLE No 1369 of 1897, from a standard gauge 0-4-0 saddle tank with outside cylinders new to the contractor William Mousley and used on construction of the North Walsham to Mundesley railway line for the Norfolk & Suffolk Joint Railway Committee. Later worked on Mousley's widening contract for the Midland Railway between Bingley and Thwaites in Yorkshire. Sold around 1901 to the contractor Thomas Wrigley of Manchester. Wrigley used it on numerous contracts, becoming their last operational locomotive when it was withdrawn around 1950. Scrapped at Wrigley's Prestwich yard August 1953. The nameplate cast brass, 27¾"x6¼", the front repainted, the worksplate engraved brass, 11"x6", the front lightly polished. The style of the pair is identical to the Lynton and Barnstaple plates of the same year. (2) (Postage Band: N/A)
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