A smokebox numberplate, 4900, from the GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 ...

Hammer

£1,000

A smokebox numberplate, 4900, from the GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 SAINT MARTIN, the first of the Class rebuilt at Swindon in December 1924 from the 2900 Saint Class 4-6-0 No 2925 built in September 1907. Allocated to Old Oak Common by January 1948, its later sheds were Laira, Newton Abbot, Stafford Road, Banbury, Worcester and finally back to both Laira and Old Oak Common from where it was withdrawn on 3 April 1959 and cut up at Swindon Works later in the same month. The front repainted. (Dispatch by Mailboxes/Collect from Banbury Depot)