Live Auction For : SATURDAY 27th JUNE AT GARTELL LIGHT RAILWAY, COMMON LANE, YENSTON,
            TEMPLECOMBE, SOMERSET, BA8 0NB

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73 Box of Railway Books. Locomotive, company histories, enginemens reminiscences etc. All good condition. (15). 85 Eight miscellaneous Handbills all relating to Bournemouth and other Dorset stations around Bournemouth. Nice selection. Must be viewed. (8)
74 BR Poster Timetable London - Plymouth and branches, North Devon & Cornwall Lines and Devon / Dorset Coast Southern Branches. Very evocative with many stations and lines now gone. Dated June to September 1963 it includes the Atlantic Coast Express Services. v.g.c. Loose laid on card. 86 “L&NWR Co. 115” oval cast iron Bridge Numberplate. This is the pattern with the squarer ampersand. Unrestored.
75 S&DJR small enamel Signal Repeater Description Plate “Chilcompton Binegar”. v.g.c. 87 North Eastern Railway 3 aspect Handlamp. The top bears a large copper plate “NER Pateley Bridge”. The body has a “NER” oval brass plate. Complete with “NER” vessel, reflector, “NER” lens cone and all glasses. The rape oil burner is missing but this is a fine unrestored lamp with the top handle bound in copper wire, from a branch line terminus station which closed in April 1951.
76 Cast iron Locomotive Shedplate “88F” (Treherbert). Virtually ex-loco condition. The characters and rim lightly polished. 88 S&DJR Loco Drivers metal Box with ornate plate “R.V.Scovell”. Rodney Scovell was a fireman then driver on the Somerset & Dorset Line, working out of Templecombe M.P.D.
77 Enamel Advertising Sign “Spillers Shapes for all Dogs”. Small edge chips only and with very good colour and shine. 304x304mm. (12x12in). 89 Oak cased 8in dial Wall Clock with fusee movement manufactured for the BR Southern Region by Grimshaw, Baxter & Elliott, circa 1950. The original service dial with 24 hour numerals is lettered “BR(S) 11069” and records show that the clock was located within the Engineers Permanent Way Office at Warminster, later transferred with that department to Salisbury. v.g.c. and working order complete with pendulum and key.
78 LMS style Locomotive Headlamp complete with stowaway red lens, original vessel, burner, reflector unit and a fine clear bullseye lens. Restored. 90 BR(Western Region) double royal letterpress Poster announcing a new train “The Royal Duchy between Paddington and Penzance”. Details the timetable for up and down trains. v.g.c. with no folds and presented in a glazed frame. 1040x660mm. (41x26in) overall.
79 BR(S) fully flanged enamel Doorplate “Ladies Room”. Chip to one screwhole and bottom right corner otherwise good condition with very good colour and shine. 91 LSWR “Shut this Gate” cast iron Notice. Face restored only.
80 Southern Rly. official Publication “A Souvenir of Southampton Docks” in the shape of an ocean liner. 32pp. plus map of dock area. Each page illustrates the ship funnels of all the various shipping lines using the docks. v.g.c. 92 “GWR Hotels” silver plated Sundae Dish by Elkington. Crisply face marked with the “GWR” roundel above “Hotels” scroll. v.g.c.
81 BR(S) enamel and gilt “British Railways” Lion over Wheel Cap Badge in v.g.c. 93 L&SWR official Tourist Guide for 1879. 32pp. with illustrations plus advertisement pages. Splendid condition throughout.
82 S&DJR fibre Single Line Tablet “Shillingstone - Blandford 4”. A nice example from this much lamented route closed in March 1966. 94 BR(S) fully flanged enamel Station Totem Sign “Waddon”. Very minor flange chips only. Good deep colour with nice shine. A former LB&SCR station opened in Feb. 1863 in the south London suburbs.
83 LNWR brass Carbide Handlamp with “Lucas King of the Road” makers plate. The lamp is embossed “LNWR” three times and is complete and in v.g.c. This is the earlier pattern with small circular base which made the lamp liable to fall over! Later examples had a larger base which rectified the problem. 95 Reproduction cast brass Locomotive Nameplate “Templecombe” with its “West Country Class” scroll. Nicely crafted replicas, the nameplate being 1595mm. (62.8in) long. The original loco was numbered 34098 and worked over the S&D line whilst allocated to Bournemouth.
84 L&SWR Look-Out Man’s brass Warning Horn with the mouthpiece turned out of horn or antler. Clearly marked with the company initials. Working order. 96 Southern Railway Welch Patent Signal Lamp Interior. Brass plate “S[E]R” and large steel plate “Torrington”. The body is embossed “SR”. Complete with copper chimney, handle, brass filler cap, brass burner and glasses. v.g.c. and restored. A former LSWR station and branch line terminus from Barnstaple Jct. Opened in July 1872 and closed in Oct 1965.